Re: beginner's questions

[Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coe.uga.edu>]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> >- Most of the work I plan to make with context are small (<20pages)
> >  reports. Mostly text with some tables and pictures, and a few
> >  graphs. Is context the program to handle this, or should I choose
> >  latex? After a quick look at the docs, it seems context is easier to
> >  do most things. Is this correct?
> 
> that's for others to answer -) 

The possible conditions for choosing LaTeX over ConTeXt that come to
mind are these:

  * if your publisher requires it

  * if you must collaborate with latex users on a document

  * if you do no unusual documents, only math papers and physics
    papers (then you won't notice the incompatibilities and
    limitations as much)

... but then again, there are a lot of LaTeX features that I don't
use, since I only produce English-language documents, so I don't know
about much of the LaTeX world.  But from what I've heard here, ConTeXt
is happy being multi-lingual, and I wouldn't guess that LaTeX has an
advantage.

But using ConTeXt is much more fun.  When I ask, "can I do this?" the
answer is "Yes."  With LaTeX the answer was often, "No."

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