On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:24:05AM -0700, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > 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.
If you ever struggled coercing LaTeX to lay out your document the way you want it, you will really appreciate this ConTeXt feature. -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
