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From: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
Subject: Re: Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:12:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4103EA09.3010907@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001a01c47230$d9c9bc50$fcb359d5@DJCPX90J>

Hi,

following this list for a couple of years now, I can not remember that 
Hans or other list members hinted how to solve arrising problems. - 
Specially if it concerns interesting / necessary features, Hans has 
always beeing prepared to cook them up!

Kind regards Willi

Mats Broberg wrote:

>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl 
>>[mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Peter Münster
>>Sent: den 24 juli 2004 19:45
> 
> 
>>Hello Mats,
>>I agree with you: ConTeXt is certainly superior to LaTeX, but 
>>sometimes, I know how to do a special thing in LaTeX, but not 
>>in ConTeXt. Often I don't know, if a special feature is 
>>already there but undocumented, or not. Sometimes, I find a 
>>sort of "workaround" to get some LaTeX behaviour, for example 
>>"\flushbottom". For beginners there is the document 
>>http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/LaTeX2ConTeXt.> pdf by Berend 
>>de Boer. It would be nice, to have something 
>>like this for advanced topics, such as varioref or lettrine. 
>>These special "LaTeX to ConTeXt" examples can then be added 
>>to the ConTeXt-wiki: http://contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt
>>Cheers, Peter
> 
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Having looked more closely at this, I guess it now stands between
> learning LaTeX and the memoir class, or learning ConTeXt. There are
> things that talk in favour for both these roadmaps, but I have not
> decided yet. 
> 
> One of the issues is how to solve a problem in ConTeXt if it suddenly
> becomes clear this or that feature is not implemented. 
> 
> Best regards,
> Mats Broberg
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-25 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <06DC60A4186F0D47A52DAC5A5D09A8CB01499989@se-mail2>
2004-07-22 15:32 ` Hans Hagen Outside
2004-07-22 16:05   ` Willi Egger
2004-07-22 18:06   ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-07-23 20:22   ` Tobias Hilbricht
2004-07-24 17:45   ` Peter Münster
2004-07-25 10:19     ` Mats Broberg
2004-07-25 17:12       ` Willi Egger [this message]
2004-07-28 17:45         ` Peter Münster
2004-07-28 17:39       ` Peter Münster

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