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* Re: newbie questions
@ 2014-05-15 13:40 Joan & Gary
  2014-05-16  8:03 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Joan & Gary @ 2014-05-15 13:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Interested in computer typesetting a Bible.

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* newbie questions
@ 2011-05-31 15:38 Sanja C.
  2011-05-31 16:27 ` Marco
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From: Sanja C. @ 2011-05-31 15:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi ConTeXt community.

While looking for free (preferably open-source) tools which I could use for 
typesetting a planned internal newsletter-booklet for a non-profit organization 
(to be released in printed form in regular intervals - each issue with new 
content of course, but same/similar style), I came across ConTeXt.

I usually use Inkscape and various WYSIWYG word processing software for 
designing and layouting flyers/leaflets/etc., but in this case (many pages, 
varying and regularly updated content, consistent style) I'm afraid those tools 
simply don't cut in in terms of professional-quality typesetting capabilities 
and content//style separation.

So programmatic typesetting might be the answer. I thought of LaTeX first, but I 
read from various sources that using ConTeXt might be easier for typesetting 
book-like things, especially if you want to design your own styles.

Before I delve in deeper, though, I would like to ask you (the ConTeXt 
community) some questions:

a) Is the ConTeXt project alive? The newest PDF documentation I could find seems 
to be from 2007; most of it is dated 2003 or older.

b) Do you think that ConTeXt is an appropriate tool for the use case I described 
(be honest please ;-)), and easy enough to learn for someone with almost no TeX 
experience?
The requirements are:
  - Support for elaborate, colorful, graphics-heavy design, which I would 
preferably create in Inkscape and then export as vector graphics (or port to 
ConTeXt's own graphics language) as necessary.
 - Ability to write a style *once* (with reasonable effort), and "outsource" it 
to an external file (or files), so that for each new release of the newsletter, 
only a simple content TeX file (or files) with minimal amount of markup is 
required (which e.g. even a non-tech-savvy writer/editor could edit)
 - Ability to easily include pictures in the content, and let the typesetting 
engine automatically position them (either in the main text area with text 
floating around them, or in special margin areas).

c) Are there any full-featured examples of design-heavy booklets/magazines/etc 
created with ConTeXt., for which the full source code is publicly available? 
That would be *really* helpful in order to assess how much work would be 
required, and also to learn how exactly it's done in practice.

Thanks!

  Sanja C.

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* Newbie questions
@ 2006-06-24 14:56 Thomas Moore
  2006-06-24 15:46 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
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From: Thomas Moore @ 2006-06-24 14:56 UTC (permalink / raw)


I am new to ConTexT and TeX (thinking about migrating from InDesign).  
I am using TexShop and the teTeX distribution on Mac OS X 10.4.

I have two questions that I cannot seem to answer after studying the  
manuals and the archives.

1.  I have successfully set up a doublesided layout that has a text  
column and an outer margin for margin notes and some small figures. I  
would like to set up a header that has the chapter number and name  
(e.g.  "3. Third Chapter Name") on the inner edge of the text column,  
and the page number aligned with the *outer* edge of the margin and a  
1-pt rule below the entire header (from below the chapter number to  
below the page number). How would one do this elegantly (or even  
inelegantly)?

2.  I would like the math environment to be as close to the LaTeX AMS  
environment as possible. I have figured out how to download the t- 
amsl module and can successfully invoke it as long as the t-amsl.tex  
file is in the same folder as my document files. But how do I install  
it permanently so that I can invoke it in all my documents? I was  
unable to find instructions in the ConTexT garden for this, and what  
I could find on the archives was not helpful (something about  
"running mktexlsr" and/or "texhash" that I have don't know how to do  
in OS X, and would be afraid to do without instructions anyway for  
fear of screwing up my TeX distribution).

Thanks for any help, and sorry if the questions are stupid.  Tom Moore

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2011-05-31 15:38 Sanja C.
2011-05-31 16:27 ` Marco
2011-05-31 22:07 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-05-31 23:44 ` George N. White III
2006-06-24 14:56 Newbie questions Thomas Moore
2006-06-24 15:46 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-06-24 16:45   ` Thomas Moore
2006-06-25 16:31     ` Hans Hagen
2006-06-29 15:02       ` Thomas Moore
2006-06-24 15:57 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-06-24 16:52   ` Thomas Moore
2006-06-24 20:57     ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-06-24 17:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-06-25 15:33 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-06-25 16:54   ` Hans Hagen
2006-06-28 18:36     ` Thomas Moore
2006-06-29  0:33       ` Thomas Moore
2006-06-29  1:12         ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-06-29  2:35           ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-06-29 15:05             ` Thomas Moore
2006-06-29 14:57           ` Thomas Moore
2006-06-27 19:53 ` Gerben Wierda
2006-06-27 20:14   ` Hans Hagen
2006-06-28 18:42   ` Thomas Moore

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