Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread Gour
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:54:47 +0100 Manuel == Manuel P. ayeye.sysfo...@gmail.com wrote: Manuel A little wish: I hope that when I'll return here there'll be Manuel good documentation (user-oriented) What about the above part? Atm, whatever I write is done using reST, but the day will come when

Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread R. Bastian
On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:54:47 +0100 Manuel P. ayeye.sysfo...@gmail.com scribit: ConTeXt is a good software. I was impressed with a manual typesetted [...] I also ConTeXt is beautiful because it's very configurable, [...] Yes I've had some unpleasant surprises: - Bibliography doesn't

Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread Manuel P.
Il 27/12/2009 19.41, Wolfgang Schuster ha scritto: You're wrong, MkIV supports colors by default while you have to enable it in MkII by yourself for backwards compatibilities. The screen value for the background key could be used to set a gray background where you could change the gray value

Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread Manuel P.
Il 27/12/2009 20.16, Peter Münster ha scritto: On Sun, Dec 27 2009, Manuel P. wrote: I've had some unpleasant surprises: - Bibliography doesn't work the way it should on MKIV. Unlike MKII. Hello Manuel, You mean perhaps the problem to get all entries in the bib-database, even

Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread Khaled Hosny
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 02:44:20PM +0100, Manuel P. wrote: \def\quotebox#1#2 {\blank \midaligned{\startbackground \quotation{\em #1} \crlf --#2 \stopbackground} \blank} - the above \quotebox command, in some cases, sends pdftex and luatex (MKII and MKIV) to the

Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread Peter Münster
On Mon, Dec 28 2009, Manuel P. wrote: \def\quotebox#1#2 You want perhaps a %-sign: \def\quotebox#1#2% No, it doesn't work despite the %-sign. Sorry. Strange... Could you post a minimal example please with hanging luatex (of course only if you have some time for that)? Cheers, Peter

Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread Hans Hagen
On 28-12-2009 14:44, Manuel P. wrote: Another problem is the fluidity of ConTeXt: it changes rapidly and the documentation is left behind. It's good because it responds very quickly to the real world and users needs, on the other hand it's bad because a new user has to be in the club for some

Re: [NTG-context] Thoughts on ConTeXt: ditched

2009-12-28 Thread berend
Manuel == Manuel P ayeye.sysfo...@gmail.com writes: Manuel Another problem is the fluidity of ConTeXt: it changes Manuel rapidly and the documentation is left behind. Maybe for some things, but I'm using a manual from 2004 and from my point of view very little has changed. I would say