> Am 24.06.2020 um 23:11 schrieb Mike Cooper > <m...@murchisondrillingschools.com>: >> Most of you know I’m writing at this German ConTeXt book since years... >> I use the incomplete version myself a lot, and I very much hope that at >> least every >> second German TeX user will buy it ;) > > Awesome! Keep at it! > Maybe when there's an English version, I'll still need it! :-)
Even if I did plan an English version, I don’t think it will happen... First I need to complete the German version. >> With TeX, footnotes, ToCs and indexes are beginner stuff, while they’re quite >> advanced with InDesign or Word. Styling your work is much easier in a visual >> programm – while you do it manually. > > Hmmm... I don't find those things to be at all advanced in Word. ??? It’s easier in Word (or LibreOffice) than in InDesign, true. Never tried to make an index in LO/Word. But ToCs in word processors tend to get messed up, as other stuff like image placement. >> May I ask what kind of job requires you to learn ConTeXt? That’s rare. > > Haha! I now work with Jan Willem Flamma (who is on this list) in the > training industry. He tells me that using ConTeXt with XML will give us a > modularity to our training content such that a modification in one place is > more or less automatically taken care of for every course manual that uses > that content. (At least that's my current understanding.) So I've been > trying to learn ConTeXt and now slowly chipping away at coding one of our > smaller homework chapters. It’s at least possible to make it efficient. I never use XML input but mostly convert DOCX to ConTeXt and work in that. My main job ATM is with technical documentation on a specialized LaTeX3 system: several similar machines, several translations, i.e. modularity pays off. At a former job (newspaper prepress admin) I prepared training material on Acrobat Pro using ConTeXt; presentations and handouts in the same documents, using modes. All the best, Hraban ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
