Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt beta in MikTeX

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 23:43, Martin Schröder wrote:

2010/12/22  :

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et voila!!!! you now have Context latest beta running under MikTeX via Winedt!!!!!

Why do you use Winedt with ConTeXt? Winedt is shareware and doesn't really do Unicode.

I'm not Barney, but I use a commercial editor too (TextMate) - the fact that it is shareware should not be the reason not to use it. And from what I understand WinEdt kind-of-works with Unicode (as long as all the characters belong to a single codepade, it is able to save and read the file as UTF-8). WinEdt was my favorite editor for a long time as well. It is very easy to use for beginners of LaTeX. I really liked the fact that it automatically recognizes the TeX distribution (MikTeX), one just presses a button to compile (no need to have a separate console and run pdflatex - I had no idea how to use pdflatex from command line at that time), it has spell checker, but the most useful feature are tabs with mathematical symbols. But yes ... Unicode used to be a showstopper. Mojca