From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20409 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Re: Context, Latex, or an XML for acaddemic writing? Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 22:07:16 +0200 Message-ID: <428A4EF4.1020701@wxs.nl> References: <23d0689705051711357c01e36c@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.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 1116360443 23644 80.91.229.2 (17 May 2005 20:07:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:07:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 17 22:07:18 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DY8Kj-0006DT-FW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:06:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E860912806; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:07:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17316-01; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:06:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3DC127FE; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:06:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BF8127FE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:06:56 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17081-05-4 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:06:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay01.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7AA127ED for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:06:55 +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 j4HK6k89003877; Tue, 17 May 2005 22:06:46 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id BE3412197E; Tue, 17 May 2005 21:39:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.60] (unknown [10.100.1.60]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 061BF17A31; Tue, 17 May 2005 19:39:57 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: David Waller , mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <23d0689705051711357c01e36c@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.83/879/Sun May 15 15:43:45 2005 on mailrelay01 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: 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: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20409 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20409 David Waller wrote: > Just to add a slightly different flavour, I have been using PdfLatex > for several years to produce technical manuals for various pieces of > software, which have included a lot of graphics and tables. > I have recently changed to ConText mainly because it is far easier to > set up how you want the text to be displayed and you don't need to > include lots of additional packages which often have side effects with > each other and need to be included in the correct order. > I have also found it very easy to modify Latex input to Context input > and particularly like the separation possible with graphics (whereby > you can have a separate file that points to the graphics file and not > have to embed the file name in the middle of the document) > > It would be nice if this list could produce some "good" layouts for > others to use to provide us all with some defaults and a starting > point rather than everyone reinventing the wheel. well, one approach to this is that some folks on the list provide 'i want this, what is the best way' kind of questions and collect the answers in a manual / style 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------