Re: Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for Initializing

From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for	Initializing
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 19:24:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1AD461.1070703@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c1f1f860905251000w73c462a0s124bc09fceb388e8@mail.gmail.com>

John Haltiwanger wrote:
> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Wolfgang Schuster <
> schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Am 25.05.2009 um 18:30 schrieb John Haltiwanger:
>>
>>  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.

in tex/context/[base|third], take a look at:

m-* : specialized  modules
s-* : styles
x-* : xml relatex modules
t-* : third party modules


Hans

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