From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
"Jairo A. del Rio" <jairoadelrio6@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: About Latex compatibility module
Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 17:54:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <616d0bfd-ecce-f7c2-44ab-d9bd6d88a320@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKyqqaY=Pi89dgemi8ke8vmi51dP4xXLsGmYCW7FueyqVgUFcA@mail.gmail.com>
On 5/24/2020 1:43 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:
> Hi everyone! I was reading some old posts on TeX.SX about LaTeX support
> on ConTeXt and I found the following:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20110822085249/https://modules.contextgarden.net/LaTeX
>
> However, not only the module seems to be deprecated, but there's no more
> info about the module now (links are broken and the like). Btw the test
> file (latextest.tex) included fails to compile:
>
> > tex error on line 165 in file t-ltmsen.tex: ! Undefined control sequence
>
> >> \newskip\@rightskip \@rightskip \z@skip
looks like someplace one has to define \z@skip to be 0pt (in this case
it's actually redundant code because a newskip is likely to be zero)
> Is it possible to make it work? I think it would be nice if some minimal
> LaTeX macros were supported. Thank you in advance!
Depends. It's not that hard to define some basic 'handle some latex
cases' module but the question is "for what purpose?". When I look at
those decade old files in that archive I see a lot of messy code that
one needs to isolate and even then we can assume that users use more
than a few commands. When they only use the top-ten commands, no
problem, but when they start setting lengths or so ... why use context
then. I have no problem mapping a few commands so that new users can
cut-n-paste some code as a starter but somehoen has to come up with the
list of commands and minimal test files then.
Apart from the (probably a bit boring) challenge I think it doesn't pay
off. Also, the systems are conceptually too different I think.
Hans
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2020-05-23 23:43 Jairo A. del Rio
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