[IN TOPIC] new interview
Yes, very nice! I liked the bit where Dave asked about the process
Mari's company uses, and that Mari also went into the issue of "so
*we* use it, but how do we deal with others who don't use it?" An
enjoyable read, thank-you to all involved.
--Sietse
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Andre Caldas
http://www.tug.org/interviews/voipio.html http://www.lucet.fi/craftex
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On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Sietse Brouwer
I liked the bit where Dave asked about the process Mari's company uses, and that Mari also went into the issue of "so *we* use it, but how do we deal with others who don't use it?"
Could you tell that I've had that discussion more than once? Sometimes I really wonder how difficult it is to understand the sentence "The original format is *not* a Word (or indeed word processor) document". "Remind me again why we use this strange and difficult system" is another all-time favourite that pops up regularly. [The answers are given in the interview, in case you are reading just this message without checking out the links.] Yes, short-term it may appear difficult in an average office environment. Long-term, I still think ConTeXt was and is the best alternative out of the available options because of its versatility. The requirements have changed over the years and will change again - I foresee tablet-sized interactivity in the near future - but I have not needed new tools, just to learn new ways of using what I have. And the first ConTeXt files I wrote still mostly work; they may need a little bit of fiddling before compiling on MkIV, but a lot less than what a structured Word2000 file needs on Word2010 (e.g. TOCs have a tendency to go bad between versions, figure placement can also be tricky). A lot of patience, some fighting spirit (and maybe a bit of luck) is required if one plans to go the same way, but it can be done and should be considered as one option among other possibilities. Regards, Mari
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:03 AM, luigi scarso
And here's another one done with MetaPost and ConTeXt that I twiddled with when on a boring 6-hour flight recently: http://www.lucet.fi/2012/12/twpatterns/ (pattern D is the one I used as demo at EuroTeX) I still need to add the "how I did it" page under CrafTeX, explaining about the MetaPost code, but there were people who wanted to use the patterns, so I did that first. And then there's a simulation system for rigid heddle weaving (band/ribbon weaving, plain weaving) that I coded last weekend. I just need to get around to doing the threading charts for that, too, and then the MP code explained, too. I've also realized that a lot of the traditionally used patterning is binary - background-foreground, white-black, base-groove, base-relief, over-under ... on-off - and can thus be described with a simple monochrome chart on rectangular grid. The range of techniques is wide from weaving to knitting to fingerloop braiding to embroidery to mosaics, but the basic idea is always the same. When I read those charts, my brain does the on-off thing, background colour is 'off', pattern colour/foreground color is 'on'. E.g. in brocaded tabletweaving 'under' (usually 'under 1' is default, so I just remember the sequence of 'overs' and think '3-1-3' when I'm really doing 'over 3, under 1, over 1, under 1, over 3'. [Seems like I have seed to another article here, just don't know where it'll end up...] I'm glad you've enjoyed reading the interview. It's been long time coming, but I didn't get around to finishing it until last week. If my memory serves me right, Hans was the person who started the whole process by suggesting that I'd be interviewed. Don't remember any more what the main reason for this was, it's really been quite a while since then. Greetings from (very) snowy Finland, Mari
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Mari Voipio -
Sietse Brouwer