From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8917 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Still the old layout problem Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 23:30:02 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020804232541.02dd6bf8@remote-1> References: <16187655464.20020804130757@iol.it> <16187655464.20020804130757@iol.it> 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 1035399281 31428 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:54:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:54:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Jens-Uwe Morawski In-Reply-To: <20020804212310.18bdffea.morawski@gmx.net> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8917 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8917 At 09:23 PM 8/4/2002 +0200, you wrote: >On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 13:07:57 +0200 >Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > > > I understand that this layout has to be kept the default for > > backwards compatibility reasons, > >hmm, declaring bugs as features is one reason why some >people dislike LaTeX more and more. I think ConTeXt is >too young for this state. ;-) > >Is it really impossible to fix that bug completely? it's not a bug, i.e. bug<>anything_that_gip_dislikes btw, a similar question could arise for head styles being normal or bold The best thing to do is to define a series of alternative defaults, like: symmetrical layout bold headers packed itemized lists and some more. of course the big problem here is that it's hard to get an agreement on what defaults to use Now, if some users can compose a 'list of alternatives', i can provide a module that provides them, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------