From: Douglas Philips <dgou@mac.com>
Subject: Re: Manual (English) Update soon?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:40:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AF38689F-0470-4B55-B65E-BB63E35AB32F@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1H0X4W-0000XV-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk>
On 2006 Dec 30, at 12:47 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan indited:
>> So, I've been contemplating whether I should move "up" the
>> abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or "down" to plain TeX and really
>> learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-)
>
> I wrote my dissertation using plain TeX plus eplain,
> ...
> I got tired of maintaining and improving the macro hackery, so I
> decided to leap over LaTeX to ConTeXt.
Yes, that is an issue. As was pointed out earlier in this thread,
'packages' tend to lose support once they're released, so ConTeXt at
least has a coherent architecture which, gathering from what I've
read on this list, counteracts that.
> Here is a hello-world template that I just wrote. It contains many of
> the ConTeXt commands that I use most frequently.
Cool, thank you! Another sunday after noon (as in 18 hours from now)
project!
--Doug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-30 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-28 21:10 Douglas Philips
2006-12-28 22:00 ` Aditya Mahajan
2006-12-29 16:14 ` Douglas Philips
2006-12-30 3:04 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-12-30 9:28 ` Douglas Philips
2007-01-02 22:28 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2006-12-30 5:47 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-12-30 9:40 ` Douglas Philips [this message]
2006-12-30 11:43 ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
2006-12-30 18:38 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-12-30 19:45 ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
2006-12-29 0:43 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-12-29 1:58 ` John R. Culleton
2006-12-29 4:37 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2006-12-29 16:35 ` Douglas Philips
2006-12-29 19:22 ` andrea valle
2006-12-30 9:20 ` Douglas Philips
2006-12-29 17:38 ` plink
2006-12-30 9:17 ` Douglas Philips
2007-01-01 22:32 ` Hans Hagen
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