Re: sample styles

[ecashin@coe.uga.edu (Ed L. Cashin)]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

> Hi All, 

Hi!

> To help people a it with starting up, I want to define a few standard
> styles. Now I suppose that people want something 'article', 'report',
> 'book' and 'letter', but what should go in there? 

It's hard to keep up with you!  I am trying out "tabulate" (for the
impatient).  :)

> I don't want to use our company styles. What do you want, how should
> it look, what should it do? Do you want latex counterparts, in which
> case I need some samples.  Or don't you want styles at all ...

I'm not sure if I'm understanding the question.  If you mean:

    \setupstyle[letter]
    % ...

... then I don't really have an opinion.  But if you mean that you are
drawing up a set of example documents illustrating how to achieve a
familiar style using ConTeXt commands, then that sounds great.  

I find myself wondering, e.g., how exactly I would go about setting up
headers with running headers showing chapter (for one-sided documents)
and chapter/section (for two-sided documents).  I know that it will be
\setupheadertexts and \setupfootertexts, but I'm unsure of what I'll
put in the square brackets.

My point is that I would find it helpful to see documents formatted in
familiar styles.

If you are looking for a sample of a LaTeX article, I have one that's
about emacs and programming in Linux that I'd be happy to share.  I
have some plain-TeX letters, a plain-TeX resume ... let me know.

-- 
--Ed Cashin
  ecashin@coe.uga.edu