You can ignore everything Keith said and you will be just fine. Regards, Khaled
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:32:39AM +0000, Meigen, Thomas wrote: > Hi Keith, > > thank you for your open comments. You exactly understood the questions > that I am asking right now. Would it be a good idea to switch to ConTeXt? > > Yes, I do not have (and I do not want to have) a deeper understanding of > proper TeX. Well, I have Knuth's TeXbook in my shelf, but it is simply > a question of time. Life is too short anyway ;-) > > But... do I really have to have a knowledge of proper TeX and Lua before > I can use ConTeXt? For me, the charme of ConTeXt had always been that > those nice documents had been prepared with rather smart code. > I dont want to write my own modules (in which case I definitely would > need to know proper TeX and Lua). I just want to use ConTeXt and > focus on the content, not on the technical background. > > Sure, I am using MacTeX and TeXLive now for many years. > > What attracted me to ConTeXt was the project-product-component > structure to use and re-use components. Other aspects are > > - different modes (presentation, handout, manuscript) > > - poster production > > - nice graphics/animation via pstricks or metapost > > - export to other formats (when writing articles many journals in my > field do not accept .tex-files) > > - export to epub/mobi format. I enjoy reading mobile versions of > my own texts and of the texts my students give me for review. > > - import from Scrivener... When writing difficult texts I noticed that > LaTeX-typesetting is often an interruption of the writing flow. After writing > some sentences I am curious to see how the text might look like, so > I typeset the text and sooner or later I am fiddling with some LaTeX > details instead of focussing on the writing process. One help had been > to use Scrivener during the writing process and using the LaTeX > typesetting for the final steps only (as a reward... ;-) ). > > How much of this list can be accomplished with LuaTex and ConTeXt...? > > > Best wishes > Thomas > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
