A somewhat belated reply..... > - Of course ConTeXt mustn't be ignored. ConTeXt Mk IV, > which is based on LuaTeX, seems to have everything that is > missing from LaTeX: a stable, coherent interface, a > well-designed architecture that makes LaTeX-style hacking > and package clashes unnecessary, XML support, > micro-typography, OpenType math, and much more. In most > respects it's several decades ahead of LaTeX. I've noticed > that newbies have been mentioned several times in this > thread: perhaps beginners should ignore LaTeX altogether and > use ConTeXt exclusively.
The problem with ConTeXt (in my opinion, at least) is comes with virtually no pre-coded layout class or style files. On Context-garden I read something along the lines of "We expect that the user knows what (s)he is doing so we don't tell the user how to lay out a document." or something along those lines. That is a great big barrier. Wilfred > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
