Hi there, I am taking a look at conTeXt as a means of typesetting documents with more advanced page layouts which otherwise would be produced with desktop publishing suites.
I am very new to conTeXt, so I know very little about it. The only documentation I have been able to find on the internet is: ConTeXt Garden ConTeXt an excursion ConTeXt : The manual I have been sifting through these for a while, and whilst the documentation is good, I still have questions. I must apologise if I missed the answers in the docs or if the questions are just plain dumb. 1) Is there a way to make ConTeXt stricter? It seem that ConTeXt will not complain if you misspell the names of colours, layers, overlays etc. I would rather it did. 2) Is there a way to overlay many layers/overlays at one place. It seems using background= can only take 1 layer/overlay. Even better if I could offset the layer/overlay from an origin. 3) I have had difficulty pushing the whole layout including the margin to the right about 2cm. I have tried using setuplayout to alter leftedge, leftedgedistance and backspace. Is that not the way to do it? 3a) Similarly I would like to make the textheight longer so that the footer is about 1cm from the bottom of the page. I have had no luck in setting textheight using setuplayout. 4) Is there a module to parse CVS tags, like the RCS package for laTeX? 5) Can I use OpenType and TrueType fonts in ConTeXt? Ideally via fontspec. 6) Is there a book on ConTeXt for beginners aside from what I have already listed above? 7) Can I specify RGB colours in th 0 <= x <= 255 format? So far I have had to write a script to help me convert them. 8) Is anyone proficient with ConTeXt going to the Cork TeX User Group meeting? Thanks. -- Best Regards Edd http://students.dec.bournemouth.ac.uk/ebarrett ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
