[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

[Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

Am 10.01.24 um 08:00 schrieb juh via ntg-context:
> Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
>> I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features.
>> Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it?
>> It would be nice to have for further events (last year I presented ConTeXt
>> at FrOSCon and CCCamp and lacked a poster).
> 
> I just submitted a talk about how we use Markdown, Pandoc and ConTeXt at
> Hostsharing eG, so maybe we'll meet in Chemnitz.

Great! Then I can leave out this workflow and refer to your talk.

> A poster would be nice. ConTeXt/MetaFun are overwhelmingly flexible and powerful. It is hard to come up with a good idea. Who is targeted?

At an open source fair or hacker meeting, the target groups seem to be
– IT people who use TeX to create PDFs of software documentation
– students/academics who use TeX for scientific work
– people who look for open source solutions to all kind of tasks (e.g. 
at FrOSCon I had a long conversation about creating genealogy trees, 
since GRAMPS’ are ugly)

There are also authors/selfpublishers/micropublishers, but these I meet 
at book fairs, not at open source conferences. For people who don’t know 
they might be happy with a “programming system” we’d need a different 
poster. (The LaTeX-based SPBuchsatz targets this clientele.)

I want to show a few interesting things that are possible with 
ConTeXt/MetaPost and a few basics how it works.

I guess I’ll use the “christmas card memory” patterns as a background 
(thanks, Hans!).

I tried to sketch the relationship of Lua/TeX/MetaPost in LuaMetaTeX and 
ConTeXt LMTX around it, with different inputs and PDF/XML output – don’t 
know yet how to make this easily understandable…

> ConTeXt is interesting for people that want to
> 
> integrate a typesetting system in a publishing environment, because
> ConTeXt does not stand in your way as LaTeX often do and has many
> programming features (lua, xml ...) or
> 
> typeset very customized layouts.
> 
> These two target groups are very different. Integratable building blocks
> for a complex publishing system or programmable layout machine – sorry, I am just
> brainstorming, but I like the idea of a poster.

Well, I’m using ConTeXt to produce PDFs for very different books, 
magazines, invoices/letters, presentations, jam labels, t-shirt designs…

Not any more for interactive forms or shipping documents, because the 
projects have run out. And my online crossword puzzle generator (with 
ConTeXt and LaTeX output) doesn’t work anymore…

We know ConTeXt/MetaPost is used for stock reports (hi Ramkumar), 
calendars (hi Willi), more books and magazines, textbooks and other 
educational material (e.g. math4all), energy reports (French power 
plants and Hans’ heating), planning model railways & typesetting 
stitching patterns (hi Taco), art (e.g. Eçir Baff), …

In short: There aren’t only two groups, I guess.

Hraban
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