From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37594 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "luigi scarso" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: switching to Context Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:16 +0100 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196339087 15526 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2007 12:24:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:24:47 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 29 13:24:55 2007 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 1IxiRi-0002XI-6O for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B94021FB01; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:29 +0100 (CET) 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 30555-02-7; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C2A1FAAB; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B3891FAAB for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:22 +0100 (CET) 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 30555-02-6 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com (rv-out-0910.google.com [209.85.198.187]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A69231FA4C for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:24:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k15so1442547rvb for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:24:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.140.251.1 with SMTP id y1mr3217416rvh.1196339056314; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:24:16 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.65.212.18 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:24:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:37594 Archived-At: On Nov 29, 2007 1:17 PM, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello, > > I'm thinking of making the switch from latex to context **WELCOME** > (1) Is it possible to do conditional compilation? yes, search in wiki for \startmode \stopmode or start to see http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Modes > (2) Is it possible to convert context into plain text hmm, with a bit of discipline, yes. But you can also explore pdftotext (make pdf => convert to text) or use \write<> macros of TeX or try luatex. -- luigi ... it's new . it's powerful . it's luatex . http://www.luatex.org ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________