From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15801 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Willi Egger Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: A few questions regarding ConTeXt Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:12:41 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <4103EA09.3010907@boede.nl> References: <001a01c47230$d9c9bc50$fcb359d5@DJCPX90J> 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090775597 25391 80.91.224.253 (25 Jul 2004 17:13:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:13:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 25 19:13:07 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 1BomYd-0003C3-00 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D196E12780; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:06 +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 30459-05-3; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF1F1276F; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 375261276F for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:03 +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 30459-05-2 for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (unknown [194.109.24.22]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADCB71276B for ; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:13:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.1] (a80-126-172-1.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.126.172.1]) by smtp-vbr2.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i6PHCeqW014323; Sun, 25 Jul 2004 19:12:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from w.egger@boede.nl) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7 (Windows/20040616) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mats.broberg@arsimprimispress.com, mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <001a01c47230$d9c9bc50$fcb359d5@DJCPX90J> X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner 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:15801 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15801 Hi, following this list for a couple of years now, I can not remember that=20 Hans or other list members hinted how to solve arrising problems. -=20 Specially if it concerns interesting / necessary features, Hans has=20 always beeing prepared to cook them up! Kind regards Willi Mats Broberg wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl=20 >>[mailto:ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl] On Behalf Of Peter M=FCnster >>Sent: den 24 juli 2004 19:45 >=20 >=20 >>Hello Mats, >>I agree with you: ConTeXt is certainly superior to LaTeX, but=20 >>sometimes, I know how to do a special thing in LaTeX, but not=20 >>in ConTeXt. Often I don't know, if a special feature is=20 >>already there but undocumented, or not. Sometimes, I find a=20 >>sort of "workaround" to get some LaTeX behaviour, for example=20 >>"\flushbottom". For beginners there is the document=20 >>http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/LaTeX2ConTeXt.> pdf by Berend=20 >>de Boer. It would be nice, to have something=20 >>like this for advanced topics, such as varioref or lettrine.=20 >>These special "LaTeX to ConTeXt" examples can then be added=20 >>to the ConTeXt-wiki: http://contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt >>Cheers, Peter >=20 >=20 > Thanks for the info. >=20 > 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.=20 >=20 > One of the issues is how to solve a problem in ConTeXt if it suddenly > becomes clear this or that feature is not implemented.=20 >=20 > Best regards, > Mats Broberg >=20 > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context