Stable users that is.
Joh (on unstable, which even has a packaged LuaTeX snapshot - thanks guys!)
Martin Schröder wrote:
2007/4/14, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As for MKII/pdfTeX1, it makes no sense making a book for a stalled
branch;
debian users will continue to use pdfTeX1
2007/4/14, Idris Samawi Hamid [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As for MKII/pdfTeX1, it makes no sense making a book for a stalled branch;
debian users will continue to use pdfTeX1 for at least 10 years, I fear. :-)
Best
Martin
[...]
Now, if we had The ConTeXt Companion ...
... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing.
One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are
adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day we might have a ConTeXt
MKII book for those who are afraid of
Patrick Gundlach schrieb:
Now, if we had The ConTeXt Companion ...
... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing.
One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are
adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day we might have a ConTeXt
MKII book for those
With ConTeXt there is, of course, the excursion (equiv. to (1)) and
the manual (2), but many important issues (the phantastic XML
processing
capabilities, bibliography stuff, typography, font management,...) are
not quite complete or covered elsewhere (i.e. situation 3).
I totally agree.
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:58:11 -0600, Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing.
One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are
adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day we might have a ConTeXt
MKII
Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:58:11 -0600, Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing.
One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are
adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day
Ulf Martin wrote:
With ConTeXt there is, of course, the excursion (equiv. to (1)) and
the manual (2), but many important issues (the phantastic XML processing
capabilities, bibliography stuff, typography, font management,...) are
not quite complete or covered elsewhere (i.e. situation 3).
book for those who only want to use the dvi format?
hey, it's not that bad ...
After all it's DeVice Independent.
Maybe today it sounds better if we say 'output format independant'
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Mittelbach et al.
The LaTeX Companion where most things can be found that even the
anvanced user might need (recently it appeared in a second edition, thus
probably securing LaTeXs leading position for another decade...).
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201362996
Now, if we had The ConTeXt Companion
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