On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Manuel P. wrote:
George N. White III ha scritto:
ConTeXt has been used, but different institutions have different rules
and expectations.
At many institutions there is already a LaTeX thesis style "ready to go",
In my experience, the trouble is not creating a style that meets your
university's requirement: that is easy both in LaTeX (once you know the
right packages) or ConTeXt. The difficulty is understanding your
universities requirement which, in most cases, is ambiguous and
incomplete.
My requirements are quite easy: something unobtrusive that enable me to focus
on the content and obtain a nice and consistent look with a virtually flat
leaning curve (I don't mind a bit of learning, but I can't spend days on
that). Some pictures, some tables, mainly text. Footnotes, bibliography,
quotes and easy personalization of footers and headers.
All this is easy in ConTeXt and also LaTeX. I don't think that ConTeXt's
has an advantage over LaTeX in terms of ease of configurability. ConTeXt's
main advantage is consistency. Once you understand a few basics, you can
guess the right keywords for other commands. In LaTeX, each package has
its own conventions and remembering stuff is more difficult.
Some quick examples:
- How can I make a double-face document (right page, left page)?
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
- How can I separate the footer from the rest of the page with something like
an \hairline?
\setupbackgrounds[footer][text][topframe=on]
- There is an equivalent for ConTeXt of LaTeX's lastpage? I want a footer
like this: <page>/<n. of pages>
\lastpage :)
\setupfootertexts[Page \pagenumber\ of \lastpage]
Aditya
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