From: Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:33:47 +1100 [thread overview]
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Yes, I see that would be a non-trivial problem. Maybe as a stop-gap some
ConTeXt files could be provided which at least roughly emulate a few
standard LaTeX styles?
-Alasdair
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
>
> For example. the LaTeX ieee.sty is available at
>> http://delphiwww.cern.ch/delphi$www/private/det/stc/ieee94/mp/ieee.styand
>> ACM styles at http://www.acm.org/publications/latex_style/. How hard
>> would
>> it be to emulate these in ConTeXt?
>>
>
> The hard part is figuring out the values (font size, spaces after sections,
> etc) from the LaTeX code. It is difficult to look at
> http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls and
> figure out what is the title size for a 10pt document, or how much space
> should come between the author block and the start of the two column text,
> etc.
>
> Reverse engineering these values is no fun. That is why I am saying that an
> *exact and complete* spec is needed.
>
> Aditya
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-12 23:35 Henry House
2011-03-13 7:54 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-03-13 9:00 ` Thomas Schmitz
2011-03-13 11:43 ` "latex style" (was : Re: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?) Peter Münster
2011-03-13 20:34 ` Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden? Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-14 0:07 ` Alasdair McAndrew
2011-03-14 3:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-14 10:42 ` Philipp Gesang
2011-03-14 3:32 ` mathew
2011-03-14 4:21 ` Alasdair McAndrew
2011-03-14 4:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-14 6:33 ` Alasdair McAndrew [this message]
2011-03-14 7:07 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-03-14 9:17 ` Martin Schröder
2011-03-14 10:43 ` Alasdair McAndrew
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-03-10 14:38 \setuppublications problem Jean Magnan de Bornier
2011-03-11 12:00 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-03-12 7:37 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2011-03-12 10:09 ` Thomas Schmitz
2011-03-12 10:45 ` Florian Wobbe
2011-03-12 11:08 ` Thomas Schmitz
2011-03-12 12:21 ` Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden? Florian Wobbe
2011-03-12 13:05 ` Marco
2011-03-12 14:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-12 16:20 ` Procházka Lukáš
2011-03-12 20:02 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2011-03-12 20:08 ` C.
2011-03-12 23:04 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-03-14 7:46 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-03-14 20:26 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-14 21:15 ` mathew
2011-03-13 7:01 ` Vnpenguin
2011-03-13 4:48 ` mathew
2011-03-13 5:03 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-03-13 6:25 ` luigi scarso
2011-03-14 13:04 ` Carlos Breton Besnier
2011-03-14 15:16 ` Carlos Breton Besnier
2011-03-16 12:37 ` Vedran Miletić
2011-04-26 10:27 ` Ian Lawrence
2011-03-14 15:17 ` Carlos Breton
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