Re: Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

["Manuel P." <ayeye.sysforge@gmail.com>]

Il 28/12/2009 18.59, Hans Hagen ha scritto:
> On 28-12-2009 14:44, Manuel P. wrote:
>
>> Another "problem" is the "fluidity" of ConTeXt: it changes rapidly and
>> the documentation is left behind. It's good because it responds very
>> quickly to the real world and users needs, on the other hand it's bad
>> because a new user has to be "in the club" for some time to figure out
>> everything.
>
> most of context (interface) is quite stable and hasn't changed in 
> ages; however with luatex/mkiv we can move forward and do things that 
> are impossible in good old tex but it's not neccessarily functionality 
> that you need now (after all, we have been producing pretty complex 
> docs with mkii and mkiv has hardly be touched the last years)
>
> Hans
>

Well, I'm using context for far too short time to know this. I was just 
saying what I've read around the internet, and since this is not the 
case: sorry! I'm simply too inexperienced :)

I've come to realize (as I was suspecting) that my problems comes mainly 
by my largely inadequate knowledge and experience with context. And this 
is fine and natural. My only wrong choice was picking context for my 
thesis (with a very near deadline) without knowing it sufficiently, not 
my interest in it.

So the message is: context is good and powerful, but not the best choice 
for this particular project since I don't know it so well. My choice and 
my error. Lesson learned: for important projects, stick with whatever 
you know well. Leave the experiments for free-time.

-- 
Manuel P.

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