Re: Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

Hi,

I use ConTeXt sinds a couple of years now. In the meantime I made up 
different books and would like to stress, that there is hardly anything 
I can not achieve with this system. Most issues can be addressed with 
options(parameters). There is a very active mailing list available and 
there are plenty of knowlegeable and smart users out there. I would 
suggest that you indeed go for ConTeXt you will not regret this step.

Kind regards Willi Egger

Hans Hagen Outside wrote:

> 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
> 
> 
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