RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?
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What do you do with ConTeXT?
We may divide this into present activities, planned activities, useful, and needed features: Present activities: I use ConTeXt to a) typeset an academic journal b) typeset my own books Planned or in-progress activities: I am striving for a) advanced critical edition support b) advanced Arabic-script support, including complicated scripts like Nastaliq: http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00xcallig/coloniallate/nastaliq... I already have a working Arabic module; though experimental, it produces some of the best classical Naskh Arabic script one can find in digital typography-) c) related to b) I would like to see an integration of aleph and pdfetex (for full left-to-right and right-to-left typesetting) Useful present or needed features: The best feature over LaTeX is its predictability and integratedness (no 1001 packages to sift through). NEEDED: a) A COMPLETE CONTEXT IDE, maybe even a lyx-like application b) More streamlined way to setup fonts c) Complete independence from the TeX distributions (almost there-)) Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523
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