From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60088 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: luigi scarso Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Best version of ConTeXt Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:04:09 +0200 Message-ID: References: <018d01cb1e31$100d29c0$30277d40$@com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278576261 811 80.91.229.12 (8 Jul 2010 08:04:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:04:21 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 08 10:04:19 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OWm5i-0003D2-JX for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:04:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB0EC9B95; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:04:17 +0200 (CEST) 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 t9W449tMCerr; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:04:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E858C9BFF; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:04:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B054C9BFF for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:04:14 +0200 (CEST) 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 upeQw0E6xr9b for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com (mail-ww0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7C3C9B95 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 10:04:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wwb34 with SMTP id 34so169319wwb.2 for ; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:04:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=ESh/VsCWsonil8ZAWLWxebT4L3Q9VJko6cds8irBHTI=; b=j7fG03iTFsH56W5oYRXe+WnOULBIPQLUCh/BNvZpAS7GDEnelM0DoG5UiJ0CEjE2Ei oBWYZNBKl+vLJ0cm3IXp1xIPhtqQHRXMn9yPr7e1KU6j0dKkvRE8phbEAA1bGdgWFMKl s5OwR6Ld0rOpWIcxvDir9QcvOOV6xps0PBv3k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=x2Y4dfguYn9Qwv0ogNk+dIB3/I8ftqeraXCQk8LhYwtqfWVw/hMd92n7DpsBF8Pcz1 1TyD8n3gF3zKobMviu2RByph+jHx0DSRI1VyJXJKf7Q0B3DapLwKiNAa69aDeq/0bGaA HE8mp9jvIir9+zHpr/Bw/d+SlDPPNRxp3eeVg= Original-Received: by 10.227.146.142 with SMTP id h14mr3534056wbv.25.1278576249888; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 01:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.56.10 with HTTP; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:04:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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:60088 Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Vnpenguin wrote: > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 02:03, Tom wrote: >> What would be the best version of ConTeXt to recommend to a friend who >> writes novels on a PC running Windows? The person has no programming skills. >> He would probably require some assistance installing Tex-Live or whatever >> and would need a stable version because he couldn't manage frequent updates. >> Problems would far outweigh additional features for him. >> > > ConTeXt is under development, so IMHO there is no "stable" version. > If you need it you have to live with it, no choice :-) > > Maybe ConTeXt minimal (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals) ? ConTeXt mkii is *stable* ConTeXt mkiv is under very active development, so it's unstable --- but usable. Both come with minimals. -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________