From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7315 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt and critical editions Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 13:11:56 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020317130539.040bd840@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397786 18210 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:29:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:29:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Idris Samawi Hamid In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7315 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7315 At 02:01 PM 3/15/2002 -0700, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >The 4TeX manual (please freely release part IV!) says "CONTE XT is fully >compatible with PlainTEX". Is this meant that ConTeXt is compatible with >Plain TeX ways that LaTeX (which redefines or >obliterates some PlainTeX) commands is not? You can devide plain tex in several parts: (1) housekeeping normally not needed by users, but the \new... commands are there (although they adapt to tex/etex) (2) math plain math is supposed to work as expected (3) fonts context has its own font system, but \rm \bf etc are supposed to work (4) otr context has its own otr, but it's not that hard to set up a layout that matches plains dimensions, although it's 'work inprogress' there is a more of less abstract otr interface where you can plug in your own otr (5) plain sectioning, verbatim, etc these plain commands do not make sense in a context like environment (6) tables should work, but context provides three alternatives methods >Is the ConTeXt output routine more easily accessed/modified? Will it be >easier to port EDMAC to ConTeXt than to LaTeX (which I have wanted to do 4 >some time) or vice versa? depends on what the spec is; what exactly does edmac provide? is there a more or less specification + examples? >P.S. Did I mention that part IV of the 4TeX manual should be _freely_ >rereleasd? It's an excellent intro to Plain, LaTeX, and ConTeXt and >deserves a greater audience, placement on CTAN, TeXLive, >tug.org.... There are some thoughts about that (more later this year) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-ade.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------