From: "luigi scarso" <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: [OT]UK TeX FAQ, v3.17, released
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 21:39:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe8d59da0711081239m4a8a07f6ta4d5366c1710d134@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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From
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
"""
What is ConTeXt?
ConTeXt is a macro package developed by Hans Hagen of Pragma-Ade. ConTeXt is
a document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX typesetting
system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from typographical details,
ConTeXt takes a complementary approach by providing structured interfaces
for handling typography, including extensive support for colors,
backgrounds, hyperlinks, presentations, figure-text integration, and
conditional compilation. It gives the user extensive control over formatting
while making it easy to create new layouts and styles without learning the
TeX macro language. ConTeXt's unified design avoids the package clashes that
can happen with LaTeX.
ConTeXt also integrates MetaFun, a superset of MetaPost and a powerful
system for vector graphics. MetaFun can be used as a stand-alone system to
produce figures, but its strength lies in enhancing ConTeXt documents with
accurate graphic elements.
ConTeXt allows the users to specify formatting commands in English, Dutch,
German, French, or Italian, and to use different typesetting engines
(PDFTeX, XeTeX, Aleph, and soon LuaTeX) without changing the user interface.
ConTeXt is developed rapidly, often in response to requests from the user
community.
*ConTeXt doesn't yet have quite such a large developer community as does
LaTeX, but those developers who are active seem to have prodigious
energy.*Support is available via a WIKI site and via the mailing list.
*
*""""
(my bold-italic)
Thank you very much ,
Mr. Fairbairns
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luigi
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next reply other threads:[~2007-11-08 20:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-08 20:39 luigi scarso [this message]
2007-11-09 15:18 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-11-09 21:00 ` luigi scarso
2007-11-10 0:32 ` luigi scarso
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