Hans Hagen schrieb am 25.05.2020 um 17:54:

On 5/24/2020 1:43 AM, Jairo A. del Rio wrote:

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Hi everyone! I was reading some old posts on TeX.SX about LaTeX support on ConTeXt and I found the following:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110822085249/https://modules.contextgarden.net...

However, not only the module seems to be deprecated, but there's no more info about the module now (links are broken and the like). Btw the test file (latextest.tex) included fails to compile:

 > tex error on line 165 in file t-ltmsen.tex: ! Undefined control sequence

 >> \newskip\@rightskip \@rightskip \z@skip

looks like someplace one has to define \z@skip to be 0pt (in this case it's actually redundant code because a newskip is likely to be zero)

In many cases one can replace the old name with @ with current names, e.g. \z@skip will become \zeroskip.

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Is it possible to make it work? I think it would be nice if some minimal LaTeX macros were supported. Thank you in advance! Depends. It's not that hard to define some basic 'handle some latex cases' module but the question is "for what purpose?". When I look at those decade old files in that archive I see a lot of messy code that one needs to isolate and even then we can assume that users use more than a few commands. When they only use the top-ten commands, no problem, but when they start setting lengths or so ... why use context then. I have no problem mapping a few commands so that new users can cut-n-paste some code as a starter but somehoen has to come up with the list of commands and minimal test files then.

Apart from the (probably a bit boring) challenge I think it doesn't pay off. Also, the systems are conceptually too different I think.

In the end you have to port the base commands of LaTeX which includes - lists - floats - references - font switches - math - etc. and just another one (and another one ...). It's just not worth the effort and we should spend the time to improve ConTeXt and add missing features. Wolfgang