Hans Hagen
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.