a tiny set of documents for introduction to ConTeXt (for MacTeX)

a tiny set of documents for introduction to ConTeXt (for MacTeX)

[Mojca Miklavec]

Hello,

In the preparation for TL 2011 Richard Koch asked about the following:

> We install some documentation about
> ConTeXt, LuaTeX, and XeTeX in /Applications/TeX,  mainly
> for people who only know LaTeX but would like to get a feel
> for later developments. That documentation needs to be up to
> date.

At the moment there is the following document in there:

The language mix
Abstract
During the third ConTEXt conference that ran in parallel to EuroTEX
2009 in The Hague we had several sessions where mkiv was discussed and
a few upcoming features were demonstrated. The next sections summarize
some of that. It's hard to predict the future, especially because new
possibilities show up once LuaTEX is opened up more, so remarks about
the future are not definitive.

One document for XeTeX contains two paragraphs, demonstrating usage of
Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese:

\newfontfamily{\A}{Geeza Pro}
\newfontfamily{\H}[Scale=0.9]{Lucida Grande}
\newfontfamily{\J}[Scale=0.85]{Osaka}

Here are some multilingual Unicode fonts: this is Arabic text: {\A
السلام عليكم},
this is Hebrew: {\H שלום}, and here's some Japanese: {\J 今日は}.

The idea is to have a simple, yet powerful example showing some
capabilities of ConTeXt, together with source code.

I find this important for promotion of ConTeXt to new users.

The question is: does anyone have any good ideas what to put there?

Mojca
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Re: a tiny set of documents for introduction to ConTeXt (for MacTeX)

[George N. White III]

On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In the preparation for TL 2011 Richard Koch asked about the following:
>
>> We install some documentation about
>> ConTeXt, LuaTeX, and XeTeX in /Applications/TeX,  mainly
>> for people who only know LaTeX but would like to get a feel
>> for later developments. That documentation needs to be up to
>> date.
>
> At the moment there is the following document in there:
>
> The language mix
> Abstract
> During the third ConTEXt conference that ran in parallel to EuroTEX
> 2009 in The Hague we had several sessions where mkiv was discussed and
> a few upcoming features were demonstrated. The next sections summarize
> some of that. It's hard to predict the future, especially because new
> possibilities show up once LuaTEX is opened up more, so remarks about
> the future are not definitive.
>
> One document for XeTeX contains two paragraphs, demonstrating usage of
> Arabic, Hebrew and Japanese:
>
> \newfontfamily{\A}{Geeza Pro}
> \newfontfamily{\H}[Scale=0.9]{Lucida Grande}
> \newfontfamily{\J}[Scale=0.85]{Osaka}
>
> Here are some multilingual Unicode fonts: this is Arabic text: {\A
> السلام عليكم},
> this is Hebrew: {\H שלום}, and here's some Japanese: {\J 今日は}.
>
> The idea is to have a simple, yet powerful example showing some
> capabilities of ConTeXt, together with source code.

One example is too limited -- very user has different projects in
mind.  I remember the quote from someone at Adobe after they
saw some ConTeXt documents "we didn't know you could do that
with PDF".

> I find this important for promotion of ConTeXt to new users.
>
> The question is: does anyone have any good ideas what to put there?

I used to send people who wanted to find out what ConTeXt can do
to <http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf>, but it doesn't work
for me on linux, only windows (the Mac here isn't on the network).


-- 
George N. White III <aa056@chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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