"Idris Samawi Hamid" writes: | Hi Leon, | | In general, I think there can be no doubt that ConTeXt is much more | flexible than LaTeX for book writing, although the latter is far more | well-known. LaTeX has a package, memoir, that makes LaTeX much better for | book writing, but I still prefer ConTeXt because of its much more | integrated and consistent user interface overall. | | As for documentation, start here: | | http://www.pragma-ade.com/show-man-1.htm | | BTW: I mainly typeset books and journals, came from LaTeX, and will never | go back if I can help it... | | Best | Idris Hi Idris, Many thanks for this information. I'm considering using ConTeXt. Can I just follow here a quick question for you: What editor do you use for editing conTeXt file? I've been using auctex with emacs for editting latex files? Thanks again. -- .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. . * . . /.\ Merry Christmas . . /..'\ . . /'.'\ -- Leon . . /.''.'\ . . /.'.'.\ . . /'.''.'.\ . . ^^^[_]^^^ . .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.

I use linux. I just read the editor list in the wiki page. It's really informative. Thanks. "Idris Samawi Hamid" writes: | On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:18:19 -0700, leon wrote: | | > What editor do you use for editing conTeXt file? I've been using auctex | > with emacs for editting latex files? | | Are you on Unix, Mac, or Windows? | | Hans Hagen uses Scite, a context-ready version is available from | Pragma (at least for Windows, I'm sure the configuration files are | available for other platforms); | | I mostly use WinEdt, perhaps the best TeX-editor ever for endusers, | but it's Windows only-( and no Unicode-(( | | Fabrice has a ConTeXt-aware version of XEmacs that comes with XemTeX | for Windows; perhaps his configuration files can easily be ported to | Linux, etc... | | Others on the list can point you to auctex configuration files for | context, or the best Mac editors, etc. | | Hmm, just looked at the wiki; check this out: | | http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Text_editor | | Best | Idris -- .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. . * . . /.\ Merry Christmas . . /..'\ . . /'.'\ -- Leon . . /.''.'\ . . /.'.'.\ . . /'.''.'.\ . . ^^^[_]^^^ . .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.