Am 14.04.24 um 21:45 schrieb Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context:
It would be great if the main page actually said what Context does.
In my poster (still WIP) I wrote: start --- The “infamous” alternative to LaTeX While most designers use graphical tools, there are still areas where code-based typesetting systems are fun, make sense or are even superior. While LaTeX is the most known of these, ConTeXt is used by a growing minority of ambitioned enthusiasts around the world. The small but active and creative community of ConTeXt users and developers is always driving TeX development over new frontiers: NTS, MetaFun, Oriental TeX, LuaTeX, mplib, LuaMetaTeX… They’re also dubbed the incisors (AKA cutting edge) of the dinosaur of Open Source. ConTeXt is aimed at creative users, known for advanced features like extensive font control and direct XML processing, with a deep integration of Lua and MetaPost. --- ConTeXt was invented in the 1990s by Hans Hagen and Ton Otten of the Dutch company “Pragma Advanced Document Engineering” for typesetting schoolbooks. Taco Hoekwater refactored the TeX source code to create LuaTeX which was further developed into LuaMetaTeX by Hans Hagen (and lately Mikael Sundqvist for refined math typography). --- “To be fair, switching to the ConTeXt way of thinking and doing things was not an overnight process […]. But once I got used to it, I could not imagine going back to LaTeX. I’ll go even further and say that, in my view, ConTeXt is the future of TeX. (Prof. Idris Samawi Hamid, 2009) Source: www.tug.org/interviews/hamid.html --- “ConTeXt is LaTeX done right. It is simple, flexible and powerful.” (J. U. Hasecke on Mastodon, 2022) --- Is ConTeXt for me? If you want … * to design your own layout * best quality math typesetting * to use Lua functions e.g. for processing data * deep integration of a graphics language (MetaPost) * to process XML input * no package conflicts * to use OpenType features * consistent setup commands * to place stuff on layers * visual debugging features * to have a lean, but mighty TeX system * to typeset much faster than with LaTeX * high quality Arabic typography … then ConTeXt is for you! --- stop