On 5/26/06, Idris Samawi Hamid
Which typesetting tasks do you NOT do in ConTeXt, and what do you prefer to use for those tasks?
I'm involved with a report series for a small scientific organization.
Years ago the organization hired a designer who knew PageMaker. A
couple reports were done in PM, but the next one had losts of math and
a plain TeX version of the MS. We used ConTeXt to duplicate his
design, with better results than you can get from PM. Meanwhile,
other authors want to use LaTeX, the designer moved on, and the
organization couldn't find a contractor willing to learn ConTeXt, so I
ended up creating a LaTeX style.
My feeling is that ConTeXt is good for creating one-off designs, but
for scientific work LaTeX is unavoidable. Few people are willing to
invest time in ConTeXt when they are already familiar with LaTeX and
use it routinely for journal articles, proceedings, etc. In
particular, it is easy to cut and paste equations between reports and
articles.
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George N. White III