From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23291 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Otared KAVIAN Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt? Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:03:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3cb063a60511070503t7b0fa1f9mc6618c84ecdb13c4@mail.gmail.com> References: <436B7517.6090005@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1131368645 1815 80.91.229.2 (7 Nov 2005 13:04:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 13:04:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 07 14:04:00 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EZ6f7-0003Xo-KX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 14:03:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9A9127B4; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:03:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02792-02; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:03:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579D5127A1; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:03:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8E2127A1 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:03:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02520-06 for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:03:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.193]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6BAD1279B for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 14:03:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i2so120189nfe for ; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:03:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=fYXngqDdA2acA00BJAKEQj7MIWl9xAQ8plzOIVNsxYFUzV7zrXbD6GrlkbZ7dUw2RM2vUxfVJRpV0f26ewHOftCYJ9VbIWR0iiY1EzPYnFIEUTqoXWYRHcaEt3Nn1fcWARXK54GibuDlGgGOoBl8RNzQRXBjv8geggmJ+GsU7Tg= Original-Received: by 10.48.229.12 with SMTP id b12mr1101671nfh; Mon, 07 Nov 2005 05:03:41 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.127.11 with HTTP; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 05:03:41 -0800 (PST) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <436B7517.6090005@elvenkind.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23291 Archived-At: On 11/4/05, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > What do you do with ConTeXT? Hi all, I am a mathematician and I use ConTeXt mainly for my conferences when I do a presentation on computer. The reasons for which I chose ConTeXt rather than other TeX macros are: --- the material typeset with ConTeXt is visually beautiful (one sees that apart from being a wizard in writing clever macros, Hans Hagen is also a great artist...) --- ConTeXt includes (almost) everything from plain-TeX: since for my papers and other publications I use plain-TeX with some basic macros I have written, it is easy to port those material into ConTeXt; --- it is easy to use graphics and MetaPost material in ConTeXt; --- since I am a Mac user, it is possible to use XeTeX for writing Right-to-Left material and profit from (almost) all ConTeXt features (many thanks, among others, to Hans Hagen, Johnaton Kew, Adam Lindsay, and Gerben Wierda who made this possible). I use XeTeX + ConTeXt for writing Persian (or Faarsi), which is a non Arabic language using Arabic alphabet. Recently I use also ConTeXt for some lecture notes in mathematics for my students, but unfortunately I gave up learning enough of ConTeXt capacities to write a book with it... For this still I use plain TeX and some personal macros, since it seems easier to adapt them to the publisher's constraints. I have tried to convince friends and colleagues to use ConTeXt rather than LaTeX, but I must admit that so far I have not been successful, since ConTeXt is growing fast and sometimes changes happen to destroy what one used to be able to do, and that the available documentation is not very user-friendly (despite the fact that the community on this list is extremely helpful and friendly to help solve problems and questions). The interesting point is that up to now everything I have been thinking of doing with TeX and computer typesetting, has been found somewhere in ConTeXt. So I am confident ConTeXt is going to be stabilized and the documentation made more friendly, little by little, thanks to all of you... Best regards: OK