I use typesetting mainly for math: papers, class notes and slides. I started with Signum (a wysiwyg program for the Atari, which was great), switched to AmsTeX , then to LaTeX, and now to ConTeXt. I am bad at remembering macros, I wrote most papers using cut & paste, and when I needed to do something in LateX that I couldn't look up in a previous paper, I spent lots of time digging through the 1001 macro packages available for LaTeX. ConTeXt is much better here for several reasons: i) It is much more logical, i.e. the way it should work usually works, and ii) if not, there is this great email list where I can ask and usually learn that ConTeXt is even more logical than I thought before. iii) it is very easy to reuse material. I can have print and slide versions of class notes almost without extra work iv) ConTeXt is easy to learn incrementally. When I see a feature I like, I can incorporate it easily, there is no need to rewrite everything using another macro package. The one drawback is that my journal and collaborative papers are still in LateX, because my coauthors don't speak ConTeXt, and, more significantly, www.arXiv.org (preprint server) doesn't speak ConTeXt either. Matthias
Hi all,
For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question:
What do you do with ConTeXT?
We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people experience ConTeXt. We are not looking for articles, in fact we really want just a small amount of text per user, nothing longer then you would normally type in an email message.
One, perhaps two paragraphs that simply tell about your personal experience using (or playing with) (or fighting with) (or yelling at) (or staring at in bewilderment) (or revelling in) (or running away from) ConTeXt.
If you like this idea, just reply to this message. I will then collect and merge the responses, and finally put a pdf on-line somewhere.
Don't be shy!
Taco