Re: Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for Initializing

[Mohamed Bana <mbana.lists@googlemail.com>]

my personal favourite 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/44368/focus=46254, beware 
you might have trouble getting that to compile with a new version of LuaTeX.

John Haltiwanger wrote:
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> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Wolfgang Schuster 
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com 
> <mailto:schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>> wrote:
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>     Am 25.05.2009 um 18:30 schrieb John Haltiwanger:
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>         I am not averse to rolling my own, I am just confused why, if
>         environments
>         are so powerful and flexible (flexible meaning one can easily
>         change things,
>         unlike document classes), there are no pre-rolled environments
>         available. I
>         am thinking here of standardized thesis environments for
>         universities, or a
>         nice letter environment to demonstrate the beauty of TeX.
> 
> 
> 
>     There are a lot of letter styles are available for ConTeXt, what's
>     wrong with them?
> 
>     • http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Letter_style
>     • http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Letter
> 
>     Wolfgang
> 
> 
> Thank you for those! I had not come across them yet. I was responding to 
> Henning's statement that "there are nearly no ready-to-use ConTeXt 
> environments available". In fact I realize I had misread that until 
> right now, having missed the 'nearly' that qualifies the statement. 
> Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> 
> Also, I don't want it to seem like I don't enjoy rolling my own 
> documents. While I'm new at it, I quite like interfacing with documents 
> in this 'programming' way.
> 
> Thank you,
> John C. Haltiwanger
> 
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