From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63630 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.comp.tex.texhax Subject: Re: Choosing TeX um ... stuff Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:21 +0100 Message-ID: <4CE45075.5040004@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290031240 31216 80.91.229.12 (17 Nov 2010 22:00:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:00:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: texhax@tug.org To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 17 23:00:33 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIq3N-00026a-4R for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 480F1CA851; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:32 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 54om45qq7cHP; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDEACA841; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C11CA841 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:27 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id R0BNIG0eQMZe for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A651CA83A for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:25 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oAHM0Oqk026689 for ; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 23:00:24 +0100 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.101; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 4.3g4) with ESMTP id 14970-1713362 for multiple; Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:56:30 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.6 ThunderBrowse/3.3.2 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=11; city=Den Haag; latitude=52.0833; longitude=4.3000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.0833,4.3000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0rDwm0oW1 - 97b1e1668794 - 20101117 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63630 gmane.comp.tex.texhax:14451 Archived-At: On 17-11-2010 10:23, Peter Davis wrote: > 1. by format (plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, others?) there are others but they're sort of obsolete > 2. by implementation (web2c, pdfTeX/pdfLaTeX, LuaTeX, others?) see remarks by Mojca: engines (etex, pdftex, xetex, luatex), implementation (web2c, etc), pdflatex is just a format > 3. by distribution (MikTeX, TeXLive, MacTeX, others?) > > 2. True or False: plain TeX and LaTeX(2e) are warhorses ... been > around for decades, quirks well known, lots of documentation, etc. the latex kernel yes, styles and extensions is another matter > 3. True or False: ConTeXt is newer, with a lot of built-in features, but > still changing quite a bit from build to build. depends on what you use ... you're not a demanding power user in terms of typeserting and the basic mechanism are ok (mkii does not change at all, while mkiv is developed in sync with luatex) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________