From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/74791 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Marco Pessotto Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Scribus vs ConTeXt Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:41:37 +0100 Message-ID: <87boohedv2.fsf@universe.krase.net> References: <1330457647.2820.77.camel@kip-laptop> <2D9F7C73-C362-485E-BC3A-B9FB7381AE9A@frycomm.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1330537341 4323 80.91.229.3 (29 Feb 2012 17:42:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 17:42:21 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Feb 29 18:42:21 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2nXe-00074u-Bw for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:42:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88D6CB249; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:42:17 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id I+wUMdi-3GlZ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:42:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 510FECB20F; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:42:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F68CB20F for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:42:10 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id K+bhRMSYAitd for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:41:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter5-til.mf.surf.net (filter5-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.221]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53C07CB201 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:41:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by filter5-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id q1THfvbW002335 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:41:58 +0100 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S2nX9-0006iC-NQ for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:41:47 +0100 Original-Received: from 93-137-201-21.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([93.137.201.21]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:41:47 +0100 Original-Received: from melmothx by 93-137-201-21.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:41:47 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 93-137-201-21.adsl.net.t-com.hr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:c5pdYnowZhd1SMajkwQ672LoRic= X-Bayes-Prob: 0.9998 (Score 4.7, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=80.91.229.3; country=NO; latitude=62.0000; longitude=10.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=62.0000,10.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0HGDRFWW1 - 3c61ee86946f - 20120229 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.221 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:74791 Archived-At: William Adams writes: > With a graphical tool, one is limited to the automation which the > developers are willing to build into the tool and sentenced to > handling manually _everything_ else, _every_ time that there's a > change, e.g., if you have a keyword block on your opening article > pages aligned against the outside gutter and the layout program can't > place it automatically and contextually, then _every_ time the article > changes from opening to a left to a right or vice-versa one has to > make that change manually. > [...] This is the best comparison I've seen in ages. Thanks for this. It was a delight to read. -- Marco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________