From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3250 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Berend de Boer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beginner's questions Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 20:19:29 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3A0AF8C1.FDE11D78@pobox.com> References: <20001109175117.A942@wouter.verheijen.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393995 15430 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:26:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:26:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Wouter Verheijen , ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3250 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3250 Wouter Verheijen wrote: > - Although I am Dutch, I have no problem at all with using the English > words (e.g. \starttext instead of \starttekst). I think this way, I > can avoid language conflicts. Do the Dutch people agree or is it > normal to use the dutch words. I use the dutch interface for dutch documents, the english for english documents. > - The DVI files produced with context show up completely blank in > KDVI. They do work in Xdvi, and my Latex files always worked in Kdvi > as well. Who's to blame? I always use DVI. > - Most of the work I plan to make with context are small (<20pages) > reports. Mostly text with some tables and pictures, and a few > graphs. Is context the program to handle this, or should I choose > latex? After a quick look at the docs, it seems context is easier to > do most things. Is this correct? ConTeXt has the advantage that you have everything in one package, for LaTeX you usually need quite a few other packages which potentially can conflict. Also look and feel is easier to change in ConTeXt. I seldom feel the need to hack low level macro's :-) Groetjes, Berend. (-: