AMS extensions and Context.
The folks over at Scribus (a Quarkish Open Source page layout program) are considering using some form of TeX for math typesetting. I mentioned plain pdftex and Context as forms of TeX to be considered as well as LaTeX. The question came up: how does Context comport with AMS extensions? What should I say in reply? -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com _________________________________________________________________ Need personalized email and website? Look no further. It's easy with Doteasy $0 Web Hosting! Learn more at www.doteasy.com
2007/5/2, John R. Culleton
The folks over at Scribus (a Quarkish Open Source page layout program) are considering using some form of TeX for math typesetting. I mentioned plain pdftex and Context as forms of TeX to be considered as well as LaTeX. The question came up: how does Context comport with AMS extensions? What should I say in reply?
-- John Culleton
Hi John, ConTeXt has most of the AMS features already included and you can use them without any extra package or worrying about the current package version. If something is missing it shouldn't be a big problem to implement them, Aditya show us sometimes new features, he ported from plain TeX code to ConTeXt. Wolfgang
On Wed, 2 May 2007, John R. Culleton wrote:
The folks over at Scribus (a Quarkish Open Source page layout program) are considering using some form of TeX for math typesetting. I mentioned plain pdftex and Context as forms of TeX to be considered as well as LaTeX. The question came up: how does Context comport with AMS extensions? What should I say in reply?
ConTeXt supports about 95% of AMS features. The few that are not supported are because no one has really asked for them yet. I wrote an article "ConTeXt for AMS addicts" in the last issue of MAPS, which shows how to achieve different features of AMS in ConTeXt. Unforunately, 2006 issue of MAPS is not available online right now. If it will help convince others, I can send you a copy of the article. I can also post it on contextgarden, but I need to find out the copyright issue (hopefully it will not be a problem). Aditya
ConTeXt supports about 95% of AMS features. The few that are not supported are because no one has really asked for them yet. I wrote an article "ConTeXt for AMS addicts" in the last issue of MAPS, which shows how to achieve different features of AMS in ConTeXt. Unforunately, 2006 issue of MAPS is not available online right now. If it will help convince others, I can send you a copy of the article. I can also post it on contextgarden, but I need to find out the copyright issue (hopefully it will not be a problem).
I'd love to read the article, too. Oliver
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Aditya Mahajan -
John R. Culleton -
Oliver Buerschaper -
Wolfgang Schuster