For a while I thought it doesn't make sense for me to add to this thread, but there appears to be a complete ignorance among many power ConTeXt users about "abnormal" ways to use ConTeXt, and maybe even computers.
I believe that there are keyboard people and mouse people. I myself am mostly a mouse person. Nevertheless, TeX has its appeal to me, besides its math typesetting competence. I love to formulate what I write while I am typing, and because I type slowly, this works quite well. I found that wysiwyg systems distract me from finding good formulations, because I pay too much attention to the layout while typing. After producing the content, it is quite easy to change the layout, and I like to do that, too -- but it is a totally different activity. I found ConTeXt to be more satisfying than LaTeX here, for several reasons. One of them is that if I want to achieve something new in LaTeX, I typically have to choose (carefullly) between several different packages, with the danger of breaking something else or to run into limitations. With ConTeXt, the "Garden" is a great resource, and if everything else fails, one can ask on this friendly list... No my confession: I hate digging around in the TeX tree, or compile new versions, etc. While I have done all this, sometimes successfully, sometimes not, I just don't need to do it often enough that I have become familiar enough with the pitfalls so that I can overcome potential problems. My memory is so bad that something I don't do at least weekly will just disappear, and I don't have enough time to exercise the unix installation yoga weekly. Hence I have been living with the TeXLive ConTeXt distribution(on a Mac) for a while, always afraid that the answer to a problem will be "just upgrade to the newest nightly built". I am sure I am not the only one. But I do not complain. ConTeXt is great, but has a long way to go until Hans and company can afford dealing with a larger user base -- when the volume of this mailing list doubles, it will become completely useless to new users. Matthias ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
