From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15737 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Outside Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 08:32:36 -0700 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <40FFDE14.4070204@wxs.nl> References: <06DC60A4186F0D47A52DAC5A5D09A8CB01499989@se-mail2> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090510594 16988 80.91.224.253 (22 Jul 2004 15:36:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:36:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 22 17:36:08 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bnfc7-0001Zi-00 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:36:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F11E12777; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:36:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07916-07; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:36:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEE3412778; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:32:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A139112778 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:32:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07886-05 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:32:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5042612771 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:32:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay01.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6MFWah0017498; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:32:37 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id EA02118570; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:32:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [10.100.1.1]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD9191856D; Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:32:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: "Broberg, Mats" , c In-Reply-To: <06DC60A4186F0D47A52DAC5A5D09A8CB01499989@se-mail2> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.73, clamav-milter version 0.73a on mailrelay01.solcon.nl X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by 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: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15737 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15737 Broberg, Mats wrote: >Dear Sir, > >For some time now, I have been looking for suitable software solutions >for my publication projects. The projects are mainly books up to 500-750 >pages, with alot of figures, CMYK, solid PMS or lineart images, cross >references, several series of margin notes and footnotes, drop caps, >list of figures, indices, tables of contents etc. > >I have never used TeX or any of the wide array of macro packages, but I >know from having read about it that it can solve many of my publication >problems - and with a very high level of typographic quality too (which >is important to me). Initially, I was looking closely at using LaTeX - >mainly due to the fact that it is so widely used and has a vast number >of packages for the functions I need - but when coming across your site, >I think that ConTeXt may fit the bill better, since it seems to be >designed in a more parameter-driven way. > >However, judging from the documentation on your site, some features that >I have read about in LaTeX - such as drop caps, complex headers, cross >references, several series of footnotes etc (i.e. the packages >"lettrine", "fancyhdr", "varioref" and "ledmac") - don't seem to be >available in ConTeXt. > >I assume packages like these can not be used "out of the box" when using >ConTeXt, but that one needs to have someone create new packages? > > I'm a bit in a hurry (need to give a workshop at the practical tex conference). The features you mentioned are present in the core system, often providing more features; opposite to latex, where you need packages, context has all things built in. More information can be get from the rather active context mailing list. I cc the mail to there, so that others can confirm this Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------