From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/50496 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: docs Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 09:49:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20090514140131.01332c39@KUBUNTU64> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242309091 29431 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2009 13:51:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 13:51:31 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu May 14 15:51:21 2009 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M4bLF-0001C9-1L for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A04551FFD8; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:51:20 +0200 (CEST) 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 26059-03; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904A91FFBA; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 488B51FFBA for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:21 +0200 (CEST) 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 24844-05 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D7FC1FFB7 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n4EDo7FX019635 for ; Thu, 14 May 2009 15:50:08 +0200 Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-76-127-178-8.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [76.127.178.8]) By skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4A0C218E.70B3B.6706 ; Authuser adityam; 14 May 2009 09:50:06 EDT In-Reply-To: <20090514140131.01332c39@KUBUNTU64> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.93.160; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 225577978 - 2914e0d4f31f - 20090514 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:50496 Archived-At: On Thu, 14 May 2009, R. Bastian wrote: > Hi, > > I would write a french & german intro-source for (quasi absolute) newcomers > which need to have a working system producing PDF texts. > > But I know nothing about ConTeXt. therefor I cant do anything without your help. > A first series of question: > > -. For a newcommer, is Mk II the best choice ? Yes. But the only major difference (from the user's point of view) in MkII and MkIV is typescript definitions. Other commands are mostly same. > -. Is it necessary to know TeX ? For the most part no. You can use ConTeXt without knowing anything about catcodes, text encodings (always use unicode), \hbox and \vbox (use \framed etc), and \halign (use tables and mathalignments). You need to know a bit about font handling, but ConTeXt does that completely differently from TeX. > or Is ConTeXt (CTX) compatible with TeX ? It is compatible in the sense that a plain tex document will work in Context. You may not always get the same output as the defaults are different. > I wish to alternate french & german texts (so they can be translated in > other languages). Also see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_on_Excursion%2C_translations The wiki page is old and the svn repo is not accessible right now, but someone started translating it into french. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________