Re: LaTeX emulation

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Maurice Diamantini wrote:
> 
> Le 18 mai 05 à 00:13, Mojca Miklavec a écrit :
> 
>> Perhaps one of them would be cloning the default LaTeX style and  
>> include it into standard ConTeXt distribution. I guess this would  be 
>> one reason more for LaTeX people to switch.
>> (I sometimes still use LaTeX if I have absolutely no time and need  to 
>> think about layout.)
> 
> 
> I agree I would be a very nice thing to have!
> The main LaTeX "classes" to emulate would be:
> - article
> - rapport
> - book

> But this is much work for somebody who is more interested by the content
> of its document than by the envelope.
> So this thing (context template) will take much time in collaborating.
> 
> What kind of stuff do we need for, say, an "article" LaTeX class?
> 
>    \usemodule[latex]
>    \usemodule[latexarticle]

It would look like this:

   % be like a standard latex class
   \setuplayout[margins=verywide]
   \setuphead[font=too_large,before=enormous_gap,after=big_gap]
   \setupalign[never]
   \setupfloats[location=trailing]
   % uncomment next line for report.cls headline
   % \setupheader[style=obnoxious]
   \endinput

:-)

There must be at least some decent LaTeX layouts out there,
surely there is no need to emulate the default classes?

Greetings,

Taco