From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15946 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mojca Miklavec Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: ConTeXt vs. LaTeX Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:07:43 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <4110EDAF.9070508@email.si> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091628482 13783 80.91.224.253 (4 Aug 2004 14:08:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 14:08:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Aug 04 16:07:52 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 1BsMQq-0005xF-00 for ; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 16:07:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380CB12775; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:52 +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 32311-03-5; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE0B31276F; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C5181276F for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:48 +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 32311-03-4 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from avs2.arnes.si (unknown [193.2.1.75]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 006A0126F8 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (avs2.arnes.si [193.2.1.75]) by avs2.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCD4726D119 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from avs2.arnes.si ([193.2.1.75]) by localhost (avs2.arnes.si [193.2.1.75]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31203-04 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from email.si (ar20-15i.dial-up.arnes.si [194.249.10.207]) by avs2.arnes.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5BAB26E86B for ; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:07:46 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; sl-SI; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: sl, en, en-us, de Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at arnes.si 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:15946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15946 At the very first moment I saw some manuals I was highly impressed of what ConTeXt was able to do and decided to switch from LaTeX to the new typesetting system. I've put (probably to much) effort to typeset my first presentation and a couple of other documents in ConTeXt after which I realised that it takes me far less time if I continue using LaTeX for some documents (no need to redefine styles for headings, simple tables easier to typeset there, ...). I'm not sure if these are only the problems at the beginning (since I have to look for almost any command I use) and would soon disappear or would the general advice be "don't use ConTeXt if LaTeX suits your needs". What are your opinions about that? I guess I could be missing something. \usemodule[pre-'something'] could be a quick solution for presentations (and I needed quite some time to realise that, but I've made up my own style anyway) - does anything similar exist also for "LaTeX-like" documents? I can write something for myself, but it still doesn't solve the problem if I want to convince someone to start using ConTeXt as a substitute for simple LaTeX documents as long he's unable to achive nice default formatting in one or two lines. Thanks a lot, Mojca Miklavec