From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3251 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beginner's questions Date: 09 Nov 2000 14:25:38 -0500 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <3.0.6.32.20001109184027.014cc100@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035393996 15433 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:26:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:26:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Wouter Verheijen , context Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: Hans Hagen's message of "Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:40:27 +0100" Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3251 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3251 Hans Hagen 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." -- --Ed Cashin PGP public key: ecashin@coe.uga.edu http://www.coe.uga.edu/~ecashin/pgp/