From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20388 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Wolf Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Context, LaTeX, or an XML for academic writing? Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 14:45:08 +0200 Message-ID: Reply-To: Tobias Wolf , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116276135 19687 80.91.229.2 (16 May 2005 20:42:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:42:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon May 16 22:42:14 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DXmNU-0008M8-8W for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 May 2005 22:39:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2305127F2; Mon, 16 May 2005 22:40:18 +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 02799-02-3; Mon, 16 May 2005 22:40:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6031F127E7; Mon, 16 May 2005 22:40:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC8C127A0 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 14:45:10 +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 31915-02 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 14:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.193]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E0EC12799 for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 14:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 50so1367024wri for ; Sat, 14 May 2005 05:45:08 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=TY40DDjCDtJTVDPlaKJ/9n12G8w81e7vGdvmB9TPO819Mq9FqAEoQt3dKiU8LH9S1mA9CgmdBXhpOyh3LtPz1IkSa/LaEloWE5jWsyMndHXlwaFPVzhLqc5pdyAyau9u054BJ6QRUoxw8s5kuLWEac69ZcXx/EM/w/evevD/w4Y= Original-Received: by 10.54.26.45 with SMTP id 45mr2385557wrz; Sat, 14 May 2005 05:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.54.68.6 with HTTP; Sat, 14 May 2005 05:45:08 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 16 May 2005 22:40:09 +0200 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20388 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20388 Dear NTG-context denizens, today I went to work to make up my mind about whether it would be a good idea to go ahead and produce my BSc. Thesis with ConTeXt. It's clear, I'm very much attracted to it's approach, I do like the syntax and the focus on PDF output (I never used DVI before) et cetera pp. This is my first post to the list and I'm happy that CB just formulated my main requirements. The hard contraints are certainly 2, 3 and 5. I've seen Hrabans' ciee juxtaposition of ConTeXt and LaTeX, and after searching the list I am not sure whether going for a KOMA class wouldn't be better considering that I definitely don't have time develop my own ConTeXt environment this time. I've also seen the MS thesis of Han The Thanh. It's good. But I would need something more suited for natural sciences that accomodates plenty of figures and references. Also I would like to "cloak" my thesis by avoiding Computer Modern. Do ready-made "academic templates" by one of you experts exist - or do you dissuade me from "just using" ConTeXt for for writing academic literature? - Tobias