From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Occasional words sticking out from flush-right
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 23:46:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe8d59da1003031446q5bda2f22le51b032a8b807f82@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <771da05a1003031319u1669fd57rfa1747b2c4e76836@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM, James Fisher <jameshfisher@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm getting the impression that there's no real-world distinction between
> ConTeXt users and ConTeXt developers.
true , in some sense.
I mean that to use ConTeXt at its full potential one must write his
own setups and macros and the best source
is the in base/* .
TeX is a (macro) programming language so "with TeX" means "with a
program written in TeX" .
ConTeXt is a TeX format that offers a powerful way to program in TeX
(and with mkiv we also have a "classical" language like Lua)
but user is expected to have an "active role" and cook his own
solution --- ConTeXt is like Lego .
On other side, there is only one ConTeXt developer --- Hans Hagen ---
and this model of development is ok in this context because otherwise
things can become too much messes ( eg conflicts between LaTeX
packages) because TeX is not a "traditional" language and because
digital typography is not a "traditional" computer science discipline
.
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-03 19:19 James Fisher
2010-03-03 19:36 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-03-03 20:41 ` James Fisher
2010-03-03 20:44 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-03 21:19 ` James Fisher
2010-03-03 22:46 ` luigi scarso [this message]
[not found] <mailman.607.1267648881.26807.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2010-03-03 21:47 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2010-03-03 21:53 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2010-03-03 23:19 ` James Fisher
2010-03-04 0:08 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-03-04 2:35 ` James Fisher
2010-03-04 4:06 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-03-04 14:39 ` James Fisher
2010-03-04 17:11 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-03-04 17:15 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-04 17:30 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-03-04 18:43 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-04 17:50 ` James Fisher
2010-03-04 7:10 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-04 14:25 ` James Fisher
2010-03-04 18:42 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-04 19:44 ` James Fisher
2010-03-04 20:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-03-04 20:47 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-04 23:31 ` James Fisher
2010-03-04 23:36 ` Aditya Mahajan
2010-03-04 23:47 ` James Fisher
2010-03-05 9:30 ` luigi scarso
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