Writing a thesis in context

Writing a thesis in context

[Randall Skelton]

Hi all,

I have been using ConTeXt/Metapost for presentations for the past year and
I am just starting to write my thesis... I am familiar with TeX macros and
writing LaTeX classes so I could probably hammer out my own 'thesis.cls'
in a few days but there are features of ConTeXt that I now find difficult
to live without!  I am looking for a good ConTeXt template document to get
started with that supports the usual assortment of figures, tables,
equations and bibliographic references.  Ideally, I would like to be able
to produce PDFs for both screen and print-- much like the ConTeXt manuals.

Anything to get me started would be a great help!

Many thanks,
Randall

Re: Writing a thesis in context

[David Antos]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:37:09AM +0100, Randall Skelton wrote:
> I have been using ConTeXt/Metapost for presentations for the past year and
> I am just starting to write my thesis... I am familiar with TeX macros and
> writing LaTeX classes so I could probably hammer out my own 'thesis.cls'
> in a few days but there are features of ConTeXt that I now find difficult
> to live without!  I am looking for a good ConTeXt template document to get
> started with that supports the usual assortment of figures, tables,
> equations and bibliographic references.  Ideally, I would like to be able
> to produce PDFs for both screen and print-- much like the ConTeXt manuals.

Hello,

I don't know if my source is good :-), but you can have a look at my
thesis typeset with ConTeXt, with tables, flowcharts, and bibliography.
Moreover, there is a screen version, too, including the CWEB source code
of my program.

You can get all of that at
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xantos/patlib

BTW, I think it's much easier to produce paper documents if you know how
to make a presentation for screen :-)

D.A.

Re: Writing a thesis in context

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:26 PM 6/6/2002 +0200, David Antos wrote:

>BTW, I think it's much easier to produce paper documents if you know how
>to make a presentation for screen :-)

indeed, making screen docs is a good exercise for structuring and once 
you've made a screen style, paper styles setups look rather simple

Hans
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Re: Writing a thesis in context

[Taco Hoekwater]

Try the pdftex manual. It's TeX source is in ConTeXt and available
from pragma's website:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/pdftex-t.tex

On Thu, 6 Jun 2002 10:37:09 +0100 (BST)
"Randall Skelton" <rhskelto@atm.ox.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have been using ConTeXt/Metapost for presentations for the past year and
> I am just starting to write my thesis... I am familiar with TeX macros and
> writing LaTeX classes so I could probably hammer out my own 'thesis.cls'
> in a few days but there are features of ConTeXt that I now find difficult
> to live without!  I am looking for a good ConTeXt template document to get
> started with that supports the usual assortment of figures, tables,
> equations and bibliographic references.  Ideally, I would like to be able
> to produce PDFs for both screen and print-- much like the ConTeXt manuals.
> 
> Anything to get me started would be a great help!
> 
> Many thanks,
> Randall
> 

-- 
groeten,

Taco

Re: Writing a thesis in context

[John Culleton]

On Thursday 06 June 2002 05:37 am, Randall Skelton wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using ConTeXt/Metapost for presentations for the past year and
> I am just starting to write my thesis... I am familiar with TeX macros and
> writing LaTeX classes so I could probably hammer out my own 'thesis.cls'
> in a few days but there are features of ConTeXt that I now find difficult
> to live without!  I am looking for a good ConTeXt template document to get
> started with that supports the usual assortment of figures, tables,
> equations and bibliographic references.  Ideally, I would like to be able
> to produce PDFs for both screen and print-- much like the ConTeXt manuals.
>
> Anything to get me started would be a great help!
>
> Many thanks,
> Randall

A god example of a dual-purpose document is the PdfTex manual, which
is written in Context and is available in source form.

John Culleotn

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