From: "Diego Depaoli" <trebestie@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: PhD Thesis in ConTeXt
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:32:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83e5fb980810211332t5545624avf3f631961fa82287@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2D12C869-67A4-4C56-8326-36C8872687A1@fiee.net>
2008/10/21 Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>:
>> Or lets ask the devils advocate the other way around: What is
>> the point of installing context, when latex could do the trick? Apart
>> that I have to re-learn latex anyway.. what is better with Context?
>
> - ConTeXt's scripts know how often your sources need to be run
> - more freedom in design (but some prefer LaTeX's "fixed" document
> classes)
> - more coherent interface (key=value syntax)
> - better support for modern features, esp. with LuaTeX
> - integration of external packages like MetaPost, GNUplot etc., see http://modules.contextgarden.net/
> - easy font installation (or no installation at all with XeTeX or
> LuaTeX)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-21 20:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-21 17:56 Piotr
2008-10-21 18:58 ` Jeff Smith
2008-10-21 19:35 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2008-10-21 20:32 ` Diego Depaoli [this message]
2008-10-21 22:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2008-10-22 5:31 ` emacs (was: Re: PhD Thesis in ConTeXt) Peter Münster
2008-10-22 6:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2008-10-22 10:50 ` emacs Gour
2008-10-23 21:08 ` emacs Peter Münster
2008-10-23 22:46 ` emacs Marcin Borkowski
2009-02-05 15:06 ` emacs Peter Münster
2009-02-05 15:19 ` emacs luigi scarso
2009-02-05 19:15 ` emacs Peter Münster
2009-02-11 15:35 ` local footnotes Albrecht Kauffmann
2009-02-13 14:44 ` Thomas Floeren
2009-02-20 8:17 ` Albrecht Kauffmann
2009-02-20 10:28 ` Thomas Floeren
2009-02-24 7:37 ` Albrecht Kauffmann
2009-02-26 19:28 ` rulethickness in columns Albrecht Kauffmann
2009-03-01 18:26 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-03-01 18:45 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-02 10:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-02 10:41 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-03 1:25 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-03 18:04 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-03 18:26 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-03 18:44 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-03 18:29 ` Hans Hagen
2009-03-03 18:50 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-03-02 14:31 ` Mojca Miklavec
2009-03-02 14:58 ` Peter Rolf
2008-10-22 1:24 ` PhD Thesis in ConTeXt Mojca Miklavec
2008-10-22 3:10 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-22 5:41 ` Alan BRASLAU
2008-10-28 1:29 ` Mohamed Bana
2008-10-28 15:20 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-22 7:13 ` Stephen A. Tjemkes
2008-10-22 8:18 ` Steffen Wolfrum
2008-10-22 12:45 ` John Devereux
2008-10-22 18:53 ` Peter Münster
2008-10-22 20:52 ` Alan BRASLAU
2008-10-22 21:25 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-10-23 14:37 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-10-23 14:54 ` John Devereux
2008-10-23 15:38 ` Documentation (Re: PhD Thesis in ConTeXt) Taco Hoekwater
2008-10-23 18:09 ` Rory Molinari
2008-10-23 22:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
2008-10-24 7:18 ` luigi scarso
2008-10-23 21:27 ` documentation, was PhD Thesis in ConTeXt Alan BRASLAU
2008-10-23 22:21 ` Marcin Borkowski
2008-10-22 13:05 Piotr
2008-10-22 13:43 ` Marcin Borkowski
2008-10-23 17:34 ` Jeff Smith
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