Am 10.01.24 um 08:00 schrieb juh via ntg-context:
Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features. Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it? It would be nice to have for further events (last year I presented ConTeXt at FrOSCon and CCCamp and lacked a poster).
I just submitted a talk about how we use Markdown, Pandoc and ConTeXt at Hostsharing eG, so maybe we'll meet in Chemnitz.
Great! Then I can leave out this workflow and refer to your talk.
A poster would be nice. ConTeXt/MetaFun are overwhelmingly flexible and powerful. It is hard to come up with a good idea. Who is targeted?
At an open source fair or hacker meeting, the target groups seem to be – IT people who use TeX to create PDFs of software documentation – students/academics who use TeX for scientific work – people who look for open source solutions to all kind of tasks (e.g. at FrOSCon I had a long conversation about creating genealogy trees, since GRAMPS’ are ugly) There are also authors/selfpublishers/micropublishers, but these I meet at book fairs, not at open source conferences. For people who don’t know they might be happy with a “programming system” we’d need a different poster. (The LaTeX-based SPBuchsatz targets this clientele.) I want to show a few interesting things that are possible with ConTeXt/MetaPost and a few basics how it works. I guess I’ll use the “christmas card memory” patterns as a background (thanks, Hans!). I tried to sketch the relationship of Lua/TeX/MetaPost in LuaMetaTeX and ConTeXt LMTX around it, with different inputs and PDF/XML output – don’t know yet how to make this easily understandable…
ConTeXt is interesting for people that want to
integrate a typesetting system in a publishing environment, because ConTeXt does not stand in your way as LaTeX often do and has many programming features (lua, xml ...) or
typeset very customized layouts.
These two target groups are very different. Integratable building blocks for a complex publishing system or programmable layout machine – sorry, I am just brainstorming, but I like the idea of a poster.
Well, I’m using ConTeXt to produce PDFs for very different books, magazines, invoices/letters, presentations, jam labels, t-shirt designs… Not any more for interactive forms or shipping documents, because the projects have run out. And my online crossword puzzle generator (with ConTeXt and LaTeX output) doesn’t work anymore… We know ConTeXt/MetaPost is used for stock reports (hi Ramkumar), calendars (hi Willi), more books and magazines, textbooks and other educational material (e.g. math4all), energy reports (French power plants and Hans’ heating), planning model railways & typesetting stitching patterns (hi Taco), art (e.g. Eçir Baff), … In short: There aren’t only two groups, I guess. Hraban