From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32328 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context,gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex Subject: Re: debian context updates Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:28:42 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20061228104224.GA20289@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167334155 1299 80.91.229.10 (28 Dec 2006 19:29:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:29:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users , debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Dec 28 20:29:12 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H00w3-0001Oy-Uh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:29:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FF52010F; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:27:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25987-06-26; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:26:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37469200FE; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:26:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48885200E7 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:26:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25987-06-25 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:26:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 203F820100 for ; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 20:26:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H00vi-0006HF-Fg; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:28:42 +0000 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1H00vi-0003da-00; Thu, 28 Dec 2006 19:28:42 +0000 Original-To: Norbert Preining In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Dec 2006 11:42:24 +0100." <20061228104224.GA20289@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32328 gmane.linux.debian.devel.tetex:20112 Archived-At: Norbert, Here's the latest description, for the debian/control file (sorry I should have explicitly CC'ed you on the list emails revising it): ConTeXt is a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX typesetting system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from typographical details, ConTeXt takes a complementary approach by providing structured interfaces for handling typography, including extensive support for colors, backgrounds, hyperlinks, presentations, figure-text integration, and conditional compilation. It gives the user extensive control over formatting while making it easy to create new layouts and styles without learning the TeX macro language. ConTeXt's unified design averts the package clashes that can happen with LaTeX. ConTeXt also integrates MetaFun, a superset of MetaPost and a powerful system for vector graphics. MetaFun can be used as a stand-alone system to produce figures, but its strength lies in enhancing ConTeXt documents with accurate graphic elements. ConTeXt allows the users to specify formatting commands in English, Dutch, German, French, or Italian, and to use different typesetting engines (PDFTeX, XeTeX, Aleph, and soon LuaTeX) without changing the user interface. ConTeXt is developed rapidly, often in response to requests from the friendly user community.