Re: migrating to ConTeXt

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Dec 22, 2007 3:19 PM, Gour wrote:
>
> > (We'll drop that letter from our keyboards soon :)
>
> Oh, then I'll stay with friendly lyx/latex...

What does lyx have to do with đ and the (Slovenian) keyboard?

> > That was before anyone started complaining about its
> > non-functionality :).
>
> When I was exploring  ConTeXt I was told about that from someone
> else. Strange, it was going on...

Most problems have been resolved about two years ago. But it's true -
đ didn't work for at least half a dozen of different reasons :)

> > Which general utf-8 problems? There might be some issues every now and
> > then (in pdfTeX each character has to be defined separately and in
> > LuaTeX there might be some new unpolished/non-debugged features), but
> > they're usually resolved once someone complains. Exotic scripts don't
> > work in pdfTeX of course.
>
> See ml's archives in '02.

2002? That must be somewhere aroud the bronze age for ConTeXt :-)

> > AUCTeX is LaTeX oriented I guess, but I don't knom the details.
>
> It says it supports ConTeXt and it does ;)

I'm sorry. I don't know that tool at all.

> > It always depends on source, so creating a general converter is
> > impossible. I would run "search and replace" a few times (depending on
> > source), but that cannot solve everything.
>
> OK. This is not the rush.

Well ... I would say ... you need to start somewhere and once you
stumble upon something you don't know how to convert, ask on the list.

> What about my last point: docs ?

That's a taboo, that's why your original question has been removed :)

Mojca
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