[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-11 Thread Fabrice L 
Dear list, dear Hraban,

> Le 7 janv. 2024 à 13:58, Henning Hraban Ramm  a écrit :
> 
> Am 07.01.24 um 17:11 schrieb garulfo:
>> does this kind of poster would make sense ?
>> https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cover_Pages#Poster_01_-_proposal_for_Libre_Planet_2021
> 
> Thank you, that looks good but it’s not what I had in mind.
> 
> I meant a poster _about_ ConTeXt, not only made with our toolset (I have a 
> stack of books for that). Maybe something about typography.
> 
> Here’s how the DANTE booth at FrOSCon 2023 looked like:
> https://yemaya.fiee.net/s/qTkeXAmXmJeosJc
> (The “mindmap” diagram on the left shows projects supported by DANTE, in the 
> middle a drawing by Duane Bibby, on the right a Tux with its TikZ source code 
> in the back.)
> We also had posters that show the architecture of TeX/LaTeX, but they were 
> seriously outdated.
> 
> Some elements that might fit:
> – some example code (like from Mikael’s BachoTeX presentation)
> – anatomy of a word and a formula (with all those little boxes and measures), 
> maybe also in Arabic
> – dodo & cow drawings from Mikael’s math manual
> – overview of layout areas (I re-made Sietse’s drawing from the wiki for my 
> book)
> - workflow diagrams
> – parts of LuaMetaTeX
> – artwork by Eçir Baff (art-aleatoire.com)
> – Hans’ recent christmas card / memory game artwork
> 
> But I don’t want just a wild collection of stuff, there should be something 
> connecting them. It should be interesting to look at as well as basic 
> information about ConTeXt.
> Hraban
> 

The suite ConTeXt/Metafun is so powerful, and can do so much different things, 
as already mentioned, that it can be difficult to present it in a coherent way. 
Perhaps this angle is that Context is a real Swiss Army knife: not only can it 
do lots of different things, it can do them very very well! 
You can take (and or I can provide in PDF of) any artwork from 
art-aleatoire.com , and if you wish/need I can 
contribute to an « art » part ! 

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[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm 

Am 10.01.24 um 08:00 schrieb juh via ntg-context:

Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features.
Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it?
It would be nice to have for further events (last year I presented ConTeXt
at FrOSCon and CCCamp and lacked a poster).


I just submitted a talk about how we use Markdown, Pandoc and ConTeXt at
Hostsharing eG, so maybe we'll meet in Chemnitz.


Great! Then I can leave out this workflow and refer to your talk.


A poster would be nice. ConTeXt/MetaFun are overwhelmingly flexible and 
powerful. It is hard to come up with a good idea. Who is targeted?


At an open source fair or hacker meeting, the target groups seem to be
– IT people who use TeX to create PDFs of software documentation
– students/academics who use TeX for scientific work
– people who look for open source solutions to all kind of tasks (e.g. 
at FrOSCon I had a long conversation about creating genealogy trees, 
since GRAMPS’ are ugly)


There are also authors/selfpublishers/micropublishers, but these I meet 
at book fairs, not at open source conferences. For people who don’t know 
they might be happy with a “programming system” we’d need a different 
poster. (The LaTeX-based SPBuchsatz targets this clientele.)


I want to show a few interesting things that are possible with 
ConTeXt/MetaPost and a few basics how it works.


I guess I’ll use the “christmas card memory” patterns as a background 
(thanks, Hans!).


I tried to sketch the relationship of Lua/TeX/MetaPost in LuaMetaTeX and 
ConTeXt LMTX around it, with different inputs and PDF/XML output – don’t 
know yet how to make this easily understandable…



ConTeXt is interesting for people that want to

integrate a typesetting system in a publishing environment, because
ConTeXt does not stand in your way as LaTeX often do and has many
programming features (lua, xml ...) or

typeset very customized layouts.

These two target groups are very different. Integratable building blocks
for a complex publishing system or programmable layout machine – sorry, I am 
just
brainstorming, but I like the idea of a poster.


Well, I’m using ConTeXt to produce PDFs for very different books, 
magazines, invoices/letters, presentations, jam labels, t-shirt designs…


Not any more for interactive forms or shipping documents, because the 
projects have run out. And my online crossword puzzle generator (with 
ConTeXt and LaTeX output) doesn’t work anymore…


We know ConTeXt/MetaPost is used for stock reports (hi Ramkumar), 
calendars (hi Willi), more books and magazines, textbooks and other 
educational material (e.g. math4all), energy reports (French power 
plants and Hans’ heating), planning model railways & typesetting 
stitching patterns (hi Taco), art (e.g. Eçir Baff), …


In short: There aren’t only two groups, I guess.

Hraban
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[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-10 Thread Hans Hagen via ntg-context 

On 1/10/2024 8:00 AM, juh via ntg-context wrote:

Dear Hraban,

Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:

I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features.
Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it?
It would be nice to have for further events (last year I presented ConTeXt
at FrOSCon and CCCamp and lacked a poster).


I just submitted a talk about how we use Markdown, Pandoc and ConTeXt at
Hostsharing eG, so maybe we'll meet in Chemnitz.

A poster would be nice. ConTeXt/MetaFun are overwhelmingly flexible and 
powerful. It is hard to come up with a good idea. Who is targeted?

ConTeXt is interesting for people that want to

integrate a typesetting system in a publishing environment, because
ConTeXt does not stand in your way as LaTeX often do and has many
programming features (lua, xml ...) or

typeset very customized layouts.

These two target groups are very different. Integratable building blocks
for a complex publishing system or programmable layout machine – sorry, I am 
just
brainstorming, but I like the idea of a poster.
maybe what you could do is collect statements like these (users saying 
how they use / percieve it) and put that on a poster


Hans


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[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-09 Thread juh via ntg-context 
Dear Hraban,

Am Sun, Jan 07, 2024 at 09:59:14AM +0100 schrieb Henning Hraban Ramm:
> I’d like to have a poster that shows off ConTeXt/MetaFun features.
> Do you have suggestions or (even better) would you like to create it?
> It would be nice to have for further events (last year I presented ConTeXt
> at FrOSCon and CCCamp and lacked a poster).

I just submitted a talk about how we use Markdown, Pandoc and ConTeXt at
Hostsharing eG, so maybe we'll meet in Chemnitz. 

A poster would be nice. ConTeXt/MetaFun are overwhelmingly flexible and 
powerful. It is hard to come up with a good idea. Who is targeted?

ConTeXt is interesting for people that want to 

integrate a typesetting system in a publishing environment, because
ConTeXt does not stand in your way as LaTeX often do and has many
programming features (lua, xml ...) or

typeset very customized layouts.

These two target groups are very different. Integratable building blocks
for a complex publishing system or programmable layout machine – sorry, I am 
just
brainstorming, but I like the idea of a poster.

juh

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[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-07 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm 

Am 07.01.24 um 17:11 schrieb garulfo:

does this kind of poster would make sense ?

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cover_Pages#Poster_01_-_proposal_for_Libre_Planet_2021


Thank you, that looks good but it’s not what I had in mind.

I meant a poster _about_ ConTeXt, not only made with our toolset (I have 
a stack of books for that). Maybe something about typography.


Here’s how the DANTE booth at FrOSCon 2023 looked like:
https://yemaya.fiee.net/s/qTkeXAmXmJeosJc
(The “mindmap” diagram on the left shows projects supported by DANTE, in 
the middle a drawing by Duane Bibby, on the right a Tux with its TikZ 
source code in the back.)
We also had posters that show the architecture of TeX/LaTeX, but they 
were seriously outdated.


Some elements that might fit:
– some example code (like from Mikael’s BachoTeX presentation)
– anatomy of a word and a formula (with all those little boxes and 
measures), maybe also in Arabic

– dodo & cow drawings from Mikael’s math manual
– overview of layout areas (I re-made Sietse’s drawing from the wiki for 
my book)

- workflow diagrams
– parts of LuaMetaTeX
– artwork by Eçir Baff (art-aleatoire.com)
– Hans’ recent christmas card / memory game artwork

But I don’t want just a wild collection of stuff, there should be 
something connecting them. It should be interesting to look at as well 
as basic information about ConTeXt.


Hraban
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[NTG-context] Re: Chemnitz, Leipzig, Call for Poster

2024-01-07 Thread garulfo 

does this kind of poster would make sense ?

https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Cover_Pages#Poster_01_-_proposal_for_Libre_Planet_2021 
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