From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Matthias Weber <matweber@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt in the Cloud?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:28:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F749BD7.3040404@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8609C65D-ED2D-4CD9-8F18-4D557DAA7322@indiana.edu>
On 29-3-2012 19:20, Matthias Weber wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> as the proud owner of one of these tablet thingies I am trying to make it as TeX-friendly as possible. Because the chances
> of running TeX on it are slim, I've been looking at alternatives. The major goal would be to be able to create a
> presentation in ConTeXt on a tablet. For LaTeX, there is a cloud based services called ScribTeX,
> which allows you to store (in the free version) up to three projects with up to 50MB space in the cloud, and have it LaTeXed.
> As their cloud can be accessed via an App, you can edit the files on your tablet, send them to the cloud, have them TeXed, and
> download the pdf.
>
> I am tempted to contact the ScribTeX people and ask them to suport ConTeXt as well, but as I am just a little user and wouldn't have
> a clue about legalities, technicalities, etc, I thought I might ask here first.
Legalities .. anyone can do it I guess and no one can claim that it's a
unique (copyrighted process). With respect to technicalities ... most
robust is xml input, a for texing one needs to take some precautions as
one can create enormous jobs. Also it needs to be sanboxed. And there
are resources to manage.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-29 17:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-29 15:59 Seeking the incompatibility of versions of ConTeXts Jaroslav Hajtmar
2012-03-29 16:35 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2012-03-29 17:20 ` ConTeXt in the Cloud? Matthias Weber
2012-03-29 17:28 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-03-29 19:11 ` Kip Warner
2012-03-29 19:59 ` Seeking the incompatibility of versions of ConTeXts Jaroslav Hajtmar
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