Re: [NTG-context] InDesign/InCopy vs. TeX and friends

2008-06-01 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Charles, On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:26:50 -0600, Charles P. Schaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would say that TeX is a way in which a mathematician / theoretical computer scientist that is well-steeped in music, languages, art, literature, and other areas might approach the issue. InDesign is

Re: [NTG-context] InDesign/InCopy vs. TeX and friends

2008-06-01 Thread Matthias Weber
One thing that hasn't been emphasized enough in this thread is the beneficial effect of TeX for the scientific community, in particular the mathematical, physical, and chemical sciences. TeX has made it possible to easilyfreely prepare and distribute manuscripts. There even is a preprint

[NTG-context] typesetting Arabic today

2008-06-01 Thread Burak Emir
Hi, First of all, I'd wish to express my thanks to the makers of and contributors to ConTeXt - it is quite a pleasure to use so far. Now for my concern: I want to typeset Arabic. What would I use? I am aware of ArabTex, I haven't yet tried Omega... however, I followed some presentations for

Re: [NTG-context] How could a typesetting system be today?

2008-06-01 Thread luigi scarso
- a GUI ;-) and thus layout by let's try how it looks Almost true. Here it seems that there is a way to embed latex in scribus http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_latex_frames Also http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/2007-January/024109.html -- luigi

[NTG-context] Specifying last page when using imposition

2008-06-01 Thread John Devereux
Hi, I am using imposition to arrange pages in a booklet format, a5 on a4. So after all the pages are printed out (doublesided) I can fold the stack in half to get my booklet. So I am using the command texexec --arrange --paperformat=a5a4 --printformat=up test.tex ...which works well.