From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/135 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl (Frans Goddijn) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Latex is too inflexible! Date: 15 Aug 98 14:29:01 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3f3_9808151434@fgbbs.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391009 21526 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:36:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:36:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:135 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:135 See below, a message that I posted in comp.text.tex. It's meant as bait for new users to get caught on! I wonder if other ConTeXt users from this list also try to expand the user base by introducing new users to ConTeXt. Since Hans Hagen is off to Poland for a TeX conference, and I haven't seen Ton Otten around here much yet, this means that the users are on their own for a couple of days... * Forwarded (from: comp.text.tex) by Frans Goddijn using timEd/2 1.10+. * Originally from Frans Goddijn (314:85/0) to all. * Original dated: Sat Aug 15, 14:16 said william_g_gruff@my-dejanews.com to All: wm> Latex is just too inflexible. I just don't seem to be able to get wm> into it. Does anyone have any tips about how to make it more wm> flexible? It's too flexible, I'd say. LaTeX is a package around TeX with thousands of smaller stylefile-extensions to it by as many authors. The result is that LaTeX can do about anything you want it to do --- no, let me rephrase, anything that a LaTeX guru has wanted it to do in the past and for which that LaTeX guru has written and published a stylefile or other hack. wm> Plus, I can never get it to look the way I want - I want my stuff wm> to look really polished, but it always ends up looking dull - and wm> don't blame the contents! If you know what you want your texts to look like, there's a stylefile out there which can pull that off. Chances are that this stylefile has not been updated for compliance with a newer version of LaTeX, or the stylefile may clash with another stylefile that you use for another reason. wm> I'm new here, so any help is welcome. If you're starting out today, than it might be wise to check out ConTeXt. It's, if I may say so, LaTeX's big brother, born later, but much better educated. It's a monolithic package that can do all you could do with all the latest and less recent stylefiles and the latest LaTeX, PLUS a batch of stuff more. It has a user interface in three languages: english, german and dutch and the very pretty manual can be downloaded from the Internet for free, as free as the package itself is for most users: http://www.ntg.nl/context Met hartelijke groet! Frans Goddijn | bbs: +31 (0)26 3217041 Postbus 30196 | email: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl 6803 AD Arnhem | tel: +31 (0)26 3219342 The Netherlands | http://www.iaf.nl/Users/Meridian ___ timEd/2 1.10+ - Origin: FGBBS at +31 26 3217041 (314:85/0) -- You are what you is