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From: "Patrick Gundlach" <patrick@gundla.ch>
Subject: Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?
Date: 3 Aug 2004 08:38:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2oelsybe2.fsf@levana.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2b57b42ba17d.2ba17d2b57b4@tampabay.rr.com> (skhilji@tampabay.rr.com's message of "Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:05:09 -0400")

Hello Salman,

> The problem with "normal
> users" cooking up new styles is the lack of artistic abilities in
> some people (like me). 

But you will never gain artistic abilities by simple copy/paste. 

> One can, obviously go thru the manual cover the cover, but if one
> does not have creative thinking, then creating professional looking
> styles would be hard. That is why, users like me really do not care
> if our documents look like everybody else's (just as long as they
> look professional).

The ability to know how to program/use a text editor/use photoshop
can only help you with the technical difficulties in making a
professional cover and style. Not more. 

> And of course, once we learn the tool, then making small changes
>here and there to make it look slightly different is no big deal.

Each LaTeX document looks slighlty different. But overall they are
extremely easy to classify as a LaTeX document. And why? The
distances and parameters are all given so it looks "right" and there
is no reason to change them.

Patrick
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-03  6:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-03  3:05 skhilji
2004-08-03  6:38 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2004-08-03  7:09 ` Hans Hagen
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-03 15:13 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03 17:44 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03  5:05 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03  6:40 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03  9:56 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-08-02 19:30 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-02 14:57 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-02 15:46 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-02 23:13   ` Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03  6:31     ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-02 16:08 ` Hans Hagen
2004-08-02  2:55 skhilji
2004-08-01 22:23 Brooks Moses
2004-08-02  1:57 ` Gary Pajer

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