Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> writes: > Before we started with context we uses ascii based markup (i still > have printouts of the code used for pagination, figure placement, tocs > around somewhere) ...
That’s very interesting… > but as the input becomes more complex it makes no sense any more to > use such formats and tex (or nowadays xml) starts looking clean and > simple in comparison Hmmm…do you use XML as *source* authoring format? I did try to play with some XML editors in the past and a bit with XSL stylesheets, but never found it as pleasnt experience, so I’m really curios to know more about your XML format usage? > where > > \startglossary[reference=terms,title={List of Terms}] > > is not that more coding. Anyway, using some asciidoc (should be utfdoc > i guess) converted to some kind of xml is probably the easiest to deal > with. I must admit that in one sense ConTeXt (TeX) is a clear winner. After I did two books using LyX/LaTeX I am simply spoiled with TeX’s typestting quality and cannot easily settle for less. Moreover, ConTeXt is certainly superior to LaTeX (despite of possible lack of more docs), so on one hand I can imagine that producing one presentation every two week would probably (hopefully) make me quite skillful in using ConTeXt (maybe even MetaPost/MetFun), at least, presentation-wise[1]…iow. the more I’d use ConText, the possibly initial (steeper) learning curve will pay off in the long term. Let me say that few days ago I stumbled upon interesting thread (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2016-09/msg00001.html) on the AUCTeX mailing list disccussing about possibility to improve general user experince when writing ConTeXt using that Emacs package…Here is one message which can be interesting not only for Hans: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/auctex/2016-09/msg00010.html Sincerely, Gour Footnotes: [1] Btw, are special presentation effects (animation, transitions etc.) available for non-Acrobat-reader PDF viewers? -- As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change. ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________