Hi Thomas!
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Dear list,
today, I have an announcement to make and a call for contributions. We have obtained a medium-sized grant at my university to further development of ConTeXt. Specifically, our project wants to facilitate typesetting critical editions after the TEI xml standard and bibliographical data. Luigi will be employed as a full-time developer for the next 6 months (he signed his contract today); Hans will coordinate the work flow.
Great news!
So this is good news. Now for the call for contributions: we invite you to send in examples in those two areas (critical editions, i.e. linenotes cum suis, and bibliographical data, aka bib-module) which show where ConTeXt could be developed.
What I’d consider the most pressing issue, pertaining both to Context and to TeX as a whole, would be text streams a.k.a. parallel typesetting. It was discussed on the list a couple times already and at one point someone collected examples [1]. Also, I sketched the current state of parallel texts elsewhere [2].
so please send examples to the list that show limitations or bugs, ask for new features, etc. if you want new features in the bibliography department, please do not send vague requests
I have a working albeit hackish (manual page-breaking ftw) implementation for the plain format which I wasn’t able to port to Context due to the much more complex page model of the latter. Example output: https://phi-gamma.net/pdf/example-3.pdf To minimize the vagueness ;-) I could share the sources but I doubt it’s of much value in its present state. Besides, it does not work with current Luatex due to changed callback signatures.
("it would be nice if we could have hungarian reference systems") but small examples which show a precise feature and a possible syntax for it.
of course, i can't promise that we will be able to act on all your submissions, but i'm optimistic that this project will make our favorite software better!
Looking forward to status reports! Will the improvements be directly merged into Context or do you prefer releasing it as a self-contained module? Best regards, Philipp [1] http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/051693.html [2] http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/128574