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From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@nunntelwb.com>
Subject: Re: Is conTeXt good for book writing?
Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2005 16:06:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.s1lbs8a6wlrs7g@walayah1.wildblue.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86fyp0lu8j.fsf@gmail.com>

Hi Leon,

In general, I think there can be no doubt that ConTeXt is much more  
flexible than LaTeX for book writing, although the latter is far more  
well-known. LaTeX has a package, memoir, that makes LaTeX much better for  
book writing, but I still prefer ConTeXt because of its much more  
integrated and consistent user interface overall.

As for documentation, start here:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-1.htm

BTW: I mainly typeset books and journals, came from LaTeX, and will never  
go back if I can help it...

Best
Idris

On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 10:47:24 -0700, leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm completely new to conTeXt though I've heard enough good thing about
> it. Now I have a chance to write a book. I'm wondering is it more
> effective to write in conTeXt than LaTeX given I'm new to both. Can you
> point out some help document that can start me off?

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-10 23:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-10 17:47 leon
2005-12-10 23:06 ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2005-12-10 23:53 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-12-11  2:18   ` leon
2005-12-11  2:47     ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-12-12 22:03       ` leon
2005-12-11  9:56     ` Renaud AUBIN

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