On 3-4-2010 7:37, Gour wrote:
However, when I ask somewhere about the support for ConTeXt I'm getting answers like: "This is the project which has only 5 or 6 users. Who actually uses it? Use LaTeX!" :-(
you must be kidding ... there are some 600 people on this list whih makes it actually not that small tex list; it's also one of the active tex lists also keep in mind that lates (+amsmath) was declared 'a standard' soon after tex surfaced ... just wonder why currently there are only two main macro packages: latex and context .. it sometimes surprises me that eventually we made it to this stage also, quite some developments originate and relate to the context community which might also be a good sign as taco mentions ... 99% of the latex books are not written by lamport also, even today i see books show up that cover the same topics every time so it looks like none of the books is the definitive answer anyway ... idris is writing a context book so push him to speed up
This raises another concern and that is: what is the future of ConTeXt is Hans "get hit by the bus"? (Of course, we even do not want to think about it...)
there are couple of folks out there (and on the list) who know the source code pretty well so i would not worry to much about that Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------