From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: A philosophical one:Who's behind ConTeXt?
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 16:56:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020613165018.0322c5f0@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020613133754.GA1046@dada.it>
At 01:37 PM 6/13/2002 +0000, you wrote:
>I produce many school reports (many pictures, big fonts 14pt up) to
>help my daughters, reports and letters for my work.
>
>I'd like to start using ConTeXt instead of LaTeX but there's
>something in a corner of my mind saying 'Be Careful! Keep Calm'.
>
>Yes, for my use ConTeXt looks more modern, more logical, and simpler
>to deal with than its older competitor but LaTeX has and will have a
>huge group of contributors/supporters around the world that sounds
>like a 'life warranty'.By contrast, ConTeXt seems to me too much tied
>and double-tied to HANS HAGEN only or, in any case, to a very small
>group of contributors.
>
>Is that hunch of mine true?
>
>And what about 'stability' of ConTeXt? I've read that sometimes it is
>unstable.
The instability mainly concerns new (or undocumented) features.
With regards to 'warranty', an installed base (i.e. users) is more or less
a guarantee. We currently implement workflows for publishers where context
is the core typesetting engine, so maybe that's a comfortable idea.
With regards to the code: in the end there will be many mall modules making
up the whole and these can be swapped in or out at will (and replaced by
whoever wants to do so).
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-13 14:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-13 13:37 Vittorio
2002-06-13 12:49 ` Idris S Hamid
2002-06-13 14:56 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
[not found] ` <20020613182920.B19488@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl>
2002-06-13 22:45 ` Hans Hagen
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