Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-29 Thread George N. White III
On 12/24/07, Aditya Mahajan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Gour wrote: 5) I read LaTeX in proper ConTeXt pdf, but I'm interested is there some helper to convert classical LaTeX book (book class) to ConTeXt? I've two books which I'm considering to publish as one (~1000p) in

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-24 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 23:43:35 -0700, Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:39:56 -0700 Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is why we need a team :-) Right. This sounds as reasonable proposal - let every expert writes his/her part. Anyway, as soon as

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-24 Thread Gour
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 09:29:26 +0100 Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes and no ... luatex's interfaces may change, as may some functionality (much starts as experiment, is tested, evolves, is optimized, etc); That's understandable, nothing to complain about. however, as long as you

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-24 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:43:35 +0100 Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:39:56 -0700 Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is why we need a team :-) Right. This sounds as reasonable proposal - let every expert writes his/her part. We're too less experts.

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Gour wrote: 5) I read LaTeX in proper ConTeXt pdf, but I'm interested is there some helper to convert classical LaTeX book (book class) to ConTeXt? I've two books which I'm considering to publish as one (~1000p) in the future, so any help in conversion would be nice.

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-23 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 22:11:49 +0100 Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:09:49 +0100 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (We'll drop that letter from our keyboards soon :) Oh, then I'll stay with friendly lyx/latex... What does lyx have to do with đ and the

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-23 Thread Gour
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 13:57:03 +0100 Wolfgang Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should use XeTeX or LuaTeX and you're free from any problem because đ is now a normal letter as any other character and you could use all letters in label texts without problems. Good. I plan to use LuaTeX if it

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-23 Thread Gour
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:39:56 -0700 Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which is why we need a team :-) Right. This sounds as reasonable proposal - let every expert writes his/her part. Anyway, as soon as luatex/mkiv is relatively stable, the hyperbola is still a bit too far from

[NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Gour
Hi! Recently I switched to emacs editor and at considered to leave lyx. At the same time, I'm again considering ConTeXt (was playing with it some years ago when it was receiving utf-8 support) - after reading about luaTeX MkIV development. Have several questions, so before firing them up, I'd

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread luigi scarso
Have several questions, so before firing them up, I'd like to ask about general etiquette on the list: should I throw them all in one email or divide as one_question/email ? hmm...boh. It depends: I prefear one email for each question plus an example to test; but maybe your questions are

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Gour
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:13:31 +0100 luigi scarso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hmm...boh. :-) It depends: I prefear one email for each question plus an example to test; OK. Will remember for the future... but maybe your questions are easy, so it's better one email . (BTW, it's not easy to say

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 22 décembre à 11:01:22 Gour [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrit notamment: | My writing needs are from short simple docs (1--few pages long) over preparing | educational presentations (with handouts) illustrated with graphics (both images SVG) for | seminars (beamer-like) to be used with

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Dec 22, 2007 11:01 AM, Gour wrote: My writing needs are from short simple docs (1--few pages long) over preparing educational presentations (with handouts) illustrated with graphics (both images SVG) for seminars (beamer-like) to be used with video-projector in classroom-like

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Gour
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:33:12 +0100 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, except that there is no beamer package available in ConTeXt , but theoretically anything can be done. Sure ;) In addition to the core functionality: http://modules.contextgarden.net/taspresent

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Gour
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 12:00:48 +0100 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Thanks. AucTeX support for ConTeXt is quite good, but I fear that a preview-latex equivalent is out of reach now (although is has been announced a while back). I explored mailing-archives a bit, but

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Dec 22, 2007 3:19 PM, Gour wrote: (We'll drop that letter from our keyboards soon :) Oh, then I'll stay with friendly lyx/latex... What does lyx have to do with đ and the (Slovenian) keyboard? That was before anyone started complaining about its non-functionality :). When I was

Re: [NTG-context] migrating to ConTeXt

2007-12-22 Thread Gour
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 21:09:49 +0100 Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (We'll drop that letter from our keyboards soon :) Oh, then I'll stay with friendly lyx/latex... What does lyx have to do with đ and the (Slovenian) keyboard? Ahh, I understood you will start a party to remove