On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Manuel P. wrote:
George N. White III ha scritto:
ConTeXt has been used, but different institutions have different rules and expectations. At many institutions there is already a LaTeX thesis style "ready to go",
In my experience, the trouble is not creating a style that meets your university's requirement: that is easy both in LaTeX (once you know the right packages) or ConTeXt. The difficulty is understanding your universities requirement which, in most cases, is ambiguous and incomplete.
My requirements are quite easy: something unobtrusive that enable me to focus on the content and obtain a nice and consistent look with a virtually flat leaning curve (I don't mind a bit of learning, but I can't spend days on that). Some pictures, some tables, mainly text. Footnotes, bibliography, quotes and easy personalization of footers and headers.
All this is easy in ConTeXt and also LaTeX. I don't think that ConTeXt's has an advantage over LaTeX in terms of ease of configurability. ConTeXt's main advantage is consistency. Once you understand a few basics, you can guess the right keywords for other commands. In LaTeX, each package has its own conventions and remembering stuff is more difficult.
Some quick examples: - How can I make a double-face document (right page, left page)?
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
- How can I separate the footer from the rest of the page with something like an \hairline?
\setupbackgrounds[footer][text][topframe=on]
- There is an equivalent for ConTeXt of LaTeX's lastpage? I want a footer like this: <page>/
\lastpage :) \setupfootertexts[Page \pagenumber\ of \lastpage] Aditya