On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 9:50 PM, Marcin Borkowski <mb...@atos.wmid.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> My 3 cents: if you want to have your thesis done *quickly* and in an > easy, "howto - recipe - faq" way, just use LaTeX (probably with > amsrefs/tikz/memoir/a few others). If you want to do more unusual > things, and have some spare time to play with them and ask a lot of > questions here - use ConTeXt. (Some time ago, on the blog of the > Malaysian LaTeX User Group (http://latex-my.blogspot.com/) there was a > nice example of having a colourful, good-looking book done in LaTeX, > btw, so it's also possible, of course; but LaTeX was *not* designed with > such things in mind.) It is not just a matter of typesetting the thesis in ConTeXt---ConTeXt is a subject of study. But even barring that, my brief experience with LaTeX was more than enough to know that the very design of the macro package irks me to a degree I would not like to use it at all, for whatever purpose. It is like Ruby on Rails: "convention over configuration." No thank you, I'm not looking for a thesis that looks like an AMS paper, and no matter how hard ConTeXt can be to start learning, my money is that hacking LaTeX to make it look the way I want is much much more difficult. The thesis also has to target both electronic and print PDFs. There is just nothing LaTeX offers me besides a poorly designed (imo) system that will take as much time, if not more, to learn how to customize to my liking than ConTeXt. > And please, *do* read the TeXbook - it's sooooo much fun! As I said, it will be read. I was just trying to discern in which order. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
