From: Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt Book: Request for help!
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:45:28 +1000 [thread overview]
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Maybe I'm missing the point, but what about Emacs? There are versions for
most operating systems, and emacs+auctex is surely the editing system of
choice for any TeX-based system.
-Alasdair
2011/8/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد <ishamid@colostate.edu>
> Hi Kip,
>
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:16:58 -0600, Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com> wrote:
>
> As some of you may know, I'm working on a professional introductory book
>>> for learning ConTeXt. Part of the philosophy of this book is to be as
>>> self-contained as possible, so we'll be using a preferred editor.
>>>
>>
> Hey Idris. I think writing a book is a great idea and much needed. I
>> don't believe that tying it to a specific editor though is neither
>> necessary nor a good idea.
>>
>
> The Book will not be "tied" to an editor. However, one goal of the book is
> to be accessible to absolute newbies for whom the TeX-vs-editor distinction
> will be a turn-off. A complete newbie system should include an
> editor/environment. The book will be arranged in a way that the two are not
> coupled, and those with some TeX or other technical background can easily
> ignore Npp.
>
>
> Not one editor/ide out there is ideal for ConTeXt (including bidi editing
>>> and other user-friendly configurability). The best balance I could find
>>> is
>>> Notepad++ (Npp), and that's what I'm going with.
>>>
>>
> The problem with Npp is that the tens of millions of users out there
>>
>
> Wow, that would be great if we got tens of millions of users to buy the
> Book :D :D :D
>
>
> running operating systems like Ubuntu will not be able to use Notepad++
>> since it is written only for Windows.
>>
>
> Well, most people using Linux have some technical facility, so they can
> configure their own editors.
>
>
> It might be better to decouple the
>> editor from the information on ConTeXt itself and perhaps offer editor
>> specific integration information in an appendix.
>>
>
> That is actually one option I'm considering. In any case.
>
>
> You'll find that Gedit,
>>
>
> I did look at gedit, but for the current vision I have for introducing
> ConTeXt to non-technical folks it does not work.
>
> Actually, I spent months checking for a better candidate than Npp,
> experimenting with just about everything I could get my hands on. On balance
> Npp got the best score on all the benchmarks I set. That's not to say I
> wouldn't prefer something better, but that decision is done, only to be
> revisited if something really AMAZING happens in the next few months.
>
> WinEdt would really have been be my ideal choice -- but the lack of
> unicode, bidi is just a non-starter. TeXWorks has a long way to go, and
> although I'm a fan of Qt its open-type implementation is buggy; so some
> Arabic-monospaced fonts don't show up correctly.
>
>
>
> for instance, is very easy to write syntax highlighting for.
>>
>
> Syntax highlighting is only a small part of what we're doing with Npp.
> Otherwise, just the user-defined dialog of Npp would be sufficient.
> Click-and-tag, tooltips ... these make for real user-friendliness.
>
> Thanks for the criticism and
>
>
> Best wishes
> Idris
> --
> Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
> International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
> Department of Philosophy
> Colorado State University
> Fort Collins, CO 80523
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-15 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-14 20:23 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-14 21:16 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-14 22:39 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-15 4:45 ` Alasdair McAndrew [this message]
2011-08-15 4:56 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-15 4:57 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-15 6:42 ` Martin Schröder
2011-08-15 6:47 ` Herbert Voss
2011-08-15 16:34 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2011-08-15 18:39 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-15 7:16 ` luigi scarso
2011-08-15 7:20 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-08-15 7:37 ` luigi scarso
2011-08-15 18:40 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-15 7:20 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-08-15 7:38 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-08-15 7:46 ` Florian Wobbe
2011-08-15 7:51 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-08-15 8:37 ` Hans Hagen
2011-08-15 9:03 ` Martin Schröder
2011-08-15 10:11 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-08-15 18:40 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-15 9:51 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-15 11:30 ` Pablo Rodríguez
2011-08-15 12:38 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-15 12:57 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-15 14:35 ` Martin Schröder
2011-08-15 18:46 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-15 18:43 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-15 19:16 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-15 19:30 ` Kip Warner
2011-08-17 1:07 ` Russell Urquhart
2011-08-18 12:37 ` Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
2011-08-14 20:31 amca01
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