Am 2006-05-27 um 04:01 schrieb Idris Samawi Hamid:
Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks?
I use InDesign CS(2) for most of my print work, because... - I do design for a living, and my colleagues and sometimes customers must be able to work with my data - I mostly have irregular layouts that maybe possible, but very non- intuitive and uncomfortable in a command based way - I seldom could use TeX's strong points (like toc, index, references, numbering etc.) - most of my work is easier to do if I can see what I do (if not what I get) - I still can't handle formula based graphics (MetaPost, PSTricks et al.) - it handles image downsampling etc. for me (I often need different resolutions of the same layout) - I hate QuarkXPress, PageMaker, CorelDraw et al. ;-) I use ConTeXt if the task is suitable for automation (e.g. my address book and planner calendar) or for text-centered books and I try to if I need the same content in different formats (e.g. presentation/ handout; songbook in A4 and planner format). I normally never use word processors other than for text exchange - I write letters and invoices in InDesign, even if I try to switch to ConTeXt for that. One of my last projects (a book on steam engineering) contained a lot of formulae; I would have done it with ConTeXt, but the customer wanted to get editable "WYSIWYG" data, so I used ID again. On the one hand it was tedious (math accents are difficult with such a program), on the other hand I finally could try ID's book features that worked rather well for me.
A corallary question:
What typesetting tasks do you find difficult-to-onerous in ConTeXt (even in nothing else is available)?
- It's hard to understand how the layout parameters influence each other - There are often situations in which I can't understand why something doesn't work (e.g. named buffers in layers, where nameless buffers work) - It's hard to understand or track down, if/why some fonts aren't found - some documentation is hard to find (if present at all); esp. if plain TeX commands are involved - I never understand, when (de)activation of elements (logos, layers...) works or why not Everything is hard if you're not used to it... Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)