From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/29619 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Charts, Graphs, Tufte, and ConTeXt Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 14:04:14 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153685107 17033 80.91.229.2 (23 Jul 2006 20:05:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 20:05:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Jul 23 22:05:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G4kC7-0000eQ-Ds for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:04:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A13B1284F; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:04:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13848-03; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:04:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374E912837; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:04:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6A6F12837 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:04:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13487-07 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:04:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (trueband.net [216.163.120.10]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 6596A1282B for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2006 22:04:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 15139 invoked by uid 1006); 23 Jul 2006 20:04:29 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.0. Clear:SA:0(0.0/100.0):. Processed in 0.614226 secs); 23 Jul 2006 20:04:29 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.16) by -v with SMTP; 23 Jul 2006 20:04:28 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 14872 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2006 20:04:22 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO walayah-main) (70.41.6.58) by -v with SMTP; 23 Jul 2006 20:04:22 -0000 Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera M2/8.54 (Win32, build 7730) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:29619 Archived-At: Hi Sanjoy, On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:48:07 -0600, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > It's _Beautiful Evidence_ (2006) and it is beautiful. I think it was > typeset in Quark. A few pages from the book, as well some of Tufte's > updates on the book's production, are here: > > > > Can TeX/LaTeX/ConTexT-based typesetting can look as good? Perhaps! I'm curious: What is preventing ConTeXt in particular from looking this good? What is the basis of your "Perhaps!"? What's missing? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/