On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 02:45:30AM -0700, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > Hi, > > > > > If you ever struggled coercing LaTeX to lay out your > > document the way > > you want it, you will really appreciate this ConTeXt > > feature. > > The thing is, as many LaTeX manuals state: "You don't want to worry about > layout, instead focus on content." I think this is true of many latex users. > Indeed, if you are professional typesetter, then context probably much more > applicable. The point is that when we make our documentations, tutorials or > manuals, we have to have a certain mental image of the group for which we > write the manual. If the objective is to introduce xelatex to a group of > users who are not very deeply immersed in either professional layout or > computer science, I think that context is not the way to go.
It was not meant to be anything against latex nor your documentation plans, I was just pointing out that the "problem" with ConTeXt is actually one of its selling features. I do use LaTeX when the fine details of the layout is not important (and when I also want to use some LaTeX package). Regards, Khaled -- 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
