RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-13 Thread Nicolas Grilly
This mini-survey is an excellent idea! What I do with ConTeXt: 1. Produce sales and marketing reports for my customers (we are a marketing and data mining consultancy). We have a very simple templating language written in Python that connects to an SQL database, generates the ConTeXt file,

RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-13 Thread Nicolas Grilly
Envoyé : vendredi 4 novembre 2005 17:32 À : ntg-context@ntg.nl Objet : Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt? Taco Hoekwater wrote: What do you do with ConTeXT? I use ConTeXt for any document that I figure someone will want to print out on paper some day. This includes

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-09 Thread Jörg Hagmann
What do you do with ConTeXT? As the editor of the 70+ page annual report of an ornithological society, I learned to hate word. When I was approached by a publisher with the offer of writing a textbook of biochemistry, I decided to try something more suitable and chose -- just why is

RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-09 Thread Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds)
Hi All, I'm currently working in a team which is building a system for the automatic production of office stationery (business cards, letterheads and compliment slips) with ConTeXt at its heart. The system provides a web-application front end for selected users to create stationery orders.

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-08 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: around, but if you just want a job done, ConTeXt can be a bit daunting. The wiki is just beginning to take off, and when Hans and/or Taco are away or are too busy to answer questions on the list, it becomes a bit discouraging because there are so many questions

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-08 Thread Vit Zyka
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? - proceedings from individual PDFs, - presentations, - posters, - logos, visiting cards,

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-08 Thread Lutz Haseloff
Taco Hoekwater schrieb: Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-07 Thread Bernd Militzer
Am Freitag, den 04.11.2005, 15:49 +0100 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: What do you do with ConTeXT? Two years ago -- I switched from LaTeX to ConTeXt. I typeset examinations and test for my wife's students at school. For that task I wrote based on exam.cls (LaTeX) a ConTexT-modul. All private

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-07 Thread Frank
After using LaTeX I use ConTeXt in my work environment (MS office based) for: - Letters, Quotes and Faxes - Reports (with floats and references) - Pricelists using perl based conversion of a database export But I must admit that I now increasingly use Apple Pages to write letters, faxes and

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-07 Thread Jose Antonio Rodriguez
A las 15:49 del vie 04 nov, Taco Hoekwater tuvo a bien escribir: What do you do with ConTeXT? Hi all, I started some years ago to study ConTeXT out of my interest for typesetting. I just choose it over LaTeX for his integrated model seemed better to me, and never regretted. It have been a

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-07 Thread Tom Fossen
Op vrijdag 4 november 2005 15:49, schreef Taco Hoekwater: What do you do with ConTeXT? I use Context for making the church-magazine of the parish of which I am the minister. With Metafun I constructed headers, page-numbers and all sorts of symbols - forming a style that connects all sorts

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread Hans van der Meer
I use ConTeXt for the presentations in my lectures on Cryptography at the University of Amsterdam. I am considering changing my lecture notes (some 300 pages) from LaTeX into ConTeXt, especially because the ease of incorporating MetaFont pictures into the text. Also for small documents as

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread Charles Doherty
Taco Hoekwater wrote:   What do you do with ConTeXT? Dear Taco,I use ConTeXt for a) my class guides (incorporating genealogical tables and other graphics) and book-lists in both paper and screen versionsb) for typesetting the Newsletter of the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlementc) my

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread Peter Münster
My first experience with ConTeXt was typesetting my brother's PhD thesis in chemistry. Used features: modes (A5 and A4), project-structure, a lot of floats, bibliography. ConTeXt at work: - technical specifications for electronic devices (used features: modules, project-structure, tables

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread Alan Bowen
Taco, Hans— One of the key features of ConTeXt for me is its ability to create platform independent output that combines the ancient languages and mathematics in ways typical of publications in the humanities. So, first, my heartiest thanks to you both and also to Thomas Schmitz for his

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread Ciro Soto
I wrote my novel using ConTeXt. Inside figures with metapost, the cover layout with Scribus. See http://www.TheGuitarMakerExploration.com Ciro ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED], mailing list for ConTeXt users ntg-context@ntg.nl = I wrote my novel using ConTeXt. Inside figures with metapost, the cover layout with Scribus. I downloaded the first chapter; it is beautiful-) Best Idris

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-06 Thread olivier Turlier
What do you do with ConTeXT? I started informatic at 33 when coming back to studies : 2 years later i've done my thesis with latex (took me 2.5 years!). Now i try to teach buiding technics and design, with the help of paper and electronic courses made with Context. Hopefully, my boss

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-05 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 04.11.2005 um 15:49 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: What do you do with ConTeXT? We are using ConTeXt for typesetting wonderful books (werksatz), mostly in the fields of arts and humanities. This kind of books often show an advanced use of footnotes, languages and alphabets. What could

RE: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-05 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
What do you do with ConTeXT? We may divide this into present activities, planned activities, useful, and needed features: Present activities: I use ConTeXt to a) typeset an academic journal b) typeset my own books Planned or in-progress activities: I am striving for a) advanced critical

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-05 Thread Xiao Jianfeng
Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people experience ConTeXt.

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-05 Thread Tobias Burnus
Hi all, Taco Hoekwater wrote: What do you do with ConTeXT? As big project I typeset my Diploma (~ Master) thesis with it - and I will do so for my PhD as well. Otherwise I use it for slides and writeups. For papers I so far used LaTeX, but I'm toying with the idea to use it also for a

[NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? We think it would be nice to see all the various ways in which people experience ConTeXt. We are not looking for

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-04 Thread luigi.scarso
What do I do with ConTeXT? 1. price-lists from xml (DB exports) ; 2. labels for shoes and dresses, from xml/csv ; 3. data sheetes (barcodes, code number and so on ), from xml/csv ; luigi ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-04 Thread Nikolai Weibull
Taco Hoekwater wrote: What do you do with ConTeXT? I use ConTeXt for any document that I figure someone will want to print out on paper some day. This includes resumes, letters, and articles. I even considered typesetting software documentation with ConTeXt, but haven’t yet decided if PDFs

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-04 Thread Mari Voipio
Taco Hoekwater wrote: What do you do with ConTeXT? I first learned ConTeXt because of work: My employer makes measuring instruments for industry and I write and/or compile and layout the end-user manuals for those instruments. Traditionally, those manuals were written and edited in Word,

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-04 Thread David Wooten
What do you do with ConTeXT? I'm using ConTeXt to typeset my Ph.D. dissertation, and have used it over the last few years to typeset seminar papers, outlines, and so on. Recently I've also helped a friend typeset his monograph. He is an architect and painter, so this text is full of

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-04 Thread Willi Egger
Hi, No there is no reason to be shy! - Context has become THE tool for all typesetting purposes. So in my environment letters, invoices, addres-labels, envelop-printing, greetingcards etc are made up in Context together with functionality provided by Metafun. A favorite issue is making

Re: [NTG-context] Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

2005-11-04 Thread Gerben Wierda
On Nov 4, 2005, at 15:49, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Hi all, For the next issue of the ntg's Maps journal, Hans and I believe it would be nice to publish the collected responses to this simple question: What do you do with ConTeXT? I have decided not too long ago to move my book-project form