From: "William D. Neumann" <wneumann@cs.unm.edu>
Subject: Re: docs
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:42:04 -0600 (MDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0406241330390.31614@hobbs.cs.unm.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72D4BC80-C612-11D8-9706-0030659899AA@fiee.net>
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> Even if math is "typical" for TeX, it's not typical for ConTeXt.
>
> I think the typical university user is content with LaTeX.
> ConTeXt is for those who like to design their own layout.
And that's, unfortunately, a poor view to take. I would love to use
ConTeXt for more of my academic writing, as it makes a lot of tasks much
easier, not just layout and design. Unfortunately, it's inability to play
like LaTeX when it comes to even such basic things as footnotes, means
that I have to constantly turn back to LaTeX whenever I need to write
something for work or school.
> Again, I don't think that bibliographies are basic.
> But I'm no scientific user.
And for those of us who are, bibliographies are *crucial* and should be
considered a basic part of any tpesetting program that wants to be taken
seriously. And while m-bib is usually sufficient, it too has enough
quirks that it's just not worth the time to even bother if you want to
submit a paper that has a special format requirement for the
bibliographies.
William D. Neumann
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-24 19:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-31 9:07 pdfTeX questions Peter Münster
2004-05-31 9:56 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-05-31 10:11 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-05-31 12:09 ` Peter Münster
2004-05-31 12:53 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-01 18:08 ` Hans Hagen
[not found] ` <m2n032tvs8.fs f@levana.de>
2004-06-02 18:05 ` Peter Münster
2004-06-17 8:48 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-18 14:29 ` ConTeXt-Wiki (Was: Re: Re: pdfTeX questions) Holger Schöner
2004-06-20 14:12 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-21 14:39 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Holger Schöner
2004-06-22 15:55 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-22 16:13 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Matt Gushee
2004-06-22 17:00 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-22 17:13 ` ConTeXt-Wiki jimarin
2004-06-23 5:56 ` Maurice Diamantin
2004-06-23 7:32 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-28 16:52 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Nagy Bence
2004-06-28 17:08 ` Tobias Burnus
2004-06-23 8:51 ` Tobias Burnus
2004-06-23 12:24 ` Maurice Diamantin
2004-06-23 15:09 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-23 16:59 ` SF project and docs (was: ConTeXt-Wiki) Henning Hraban Ramm
2004-06-24 14:13 ` Maurice Diamantini
2004-06-24 19:12 ` docs Henning Hraban Ramm
2004-06-24 19:34 ` docs Idris Samawi Hamid
2004-06-24 21:58 ` docs Henning Hraban Ramm
2004-06-25 6:21 ` docs Taco Hoekwater
2004-06-25 15:23 ` docs Idris Samawi Hamid
2004-06-24 19:42 ` William D. Neumann [this message]
2004-06-25 6:42 ` Hans political ConTeXt orientation request! Maurice Diamantini
2004-06-25 16:03 ` Hans Hagen
2004-06-26 9:46 ` Maurice Diamantini dom
2004-06-26 9:51 ` High level user macro (howto?) Maurice Diamantini dom
2004-06-28 9:18 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-06-28 11:58 ` Hans Hagen
2004-06-28 13:21 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-06-28 14:04 ` Hans Hagen
2004-06-28 15:06 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-06-28 9:32 ` Taco Hoekwater
2004-08-10 12:02 ` Peter Münster
2004-08-10 12:11 ` Peter Münster
2004-08-10 12:35 ` Vit Zyka
2004-08-10 13:47 ` Peter Münster
2004-06-28 9:49 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-28 15:34 ` Maurice Diamantini
2004-06-28 8:40 ` Extending metapost Taco Hoekwater
2004-12-27 16:03 ` John Culleton
2004-12-27 19:17 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-12-28 10:04 ` Taco Hoekwater
2004-06-25 16:11 ` docs Hans Hagen
2004-06-25 16:56 ` docs William D. Neumann
2004-06-25 18:04 ` docs Hans Hagen
2004-06-26 18:18 ` docs Hans Hagen
2004-06-23 8:56 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-23 12:42 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Maurice Diamantini
2004-06-23 14:54 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-24 13:01 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Maurice Diamantini
2004-06-23 7:26 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-23 8:55 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Patrick Gundlach
2004-06-23 15:29 ` ConTeXt-Wiki Holger Schöner
2004-06-06 7:24 ` Re: pdfTeX questions Peter Münster
2004-06-07 17:40 ` Hans Hagen
2004-06-07 20:40 ` Peter Münster
2004-05-31 10:07 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-05-31 12:20 ` Peter Münster
2004-06-01 18:10 ` Hans Hagen
2009-05-14 12:01 docs R. Bastian
2009-05-14 12:30 ` docs luigi scarso
[not found] ` <954f61110905140545p287dd766r6b75756aaca14ba1@mail.gmail.com>
2009-05-14 15:30 ` docs R. Bastian
2009-05-14 13:24 ` docs Diego Depaoli
2009-05-14 13:49 ` docs Aditya Mahajan
2009-05-14 15:12 ` docs R. Bastian
2009-05-14 16:25 ` docs Wolfgang Schuster
2009-05-14 14:59 ` docs Mari Voipio
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