Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Mohamed Bana wrote: Hi Aditya, I've tried compiling your thesis. It failed with; There were a few modules which were missings from the zip file. I have created a new zip file with these files. I hope that everything should compile now.

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-27 Thread Mohamed Bana
Hi Aditya, I've tried compiling your thesis. It failed with; texmfstart texexec thesis.tex TeXExec | processing document 'thesis.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file thesis.top TeXExec | using randomseed 104

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-23 Thread John Devereux
Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alan BRASLAU wrote: My question to the mailing list: is this task structured? Is this being managed by anyone? Unfortunately, not. Aditya's reply sums it up pretty well. I just want to add a

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-23 Thread Jeff Smith
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:05, Piotr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeff, would it be allright for You to publish the source of Your very useful python Endnote-Bibtex conversion program? I don't mind, but I will have to have a look at it again first, if you do not mind the little delay. I actually

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-23 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 04:37:23PM +0200, Taco Hoekwater napisa#322;(a): Hi, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alan BRASLAU wrote: My question to the mailing list: is this task structured? Is this being managed by anyone? Unfortunately, not. Aditya's reply sums

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread Stephen A. Tjemkes
As all the experts have answered your question, let a non-expert join in. The single frustrating element of context is the documentation. I use context now for many years (not on a daily basis though) for writing journal papers, posters, presentations etc. I think it is a great package. and the

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Am 22.10.2008 um 09:13 schrieb Stephen A. Tjemkes: As all the experts have answered your question, let a non-expert join in. The single frustrating element of context is the documentation. I use context now for many years (not on a daily basis though) for writing journal papers,

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread John Devereux
Steffen Wolfrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am 22.10.2008 um 09:13 schrieb Stephen A. Tjemkes: As all the experts have answered your question, let a non-expert join in. The single frustrating element of context is the documentation. I use context now for many years (not on a daily basis

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread Piotr
Hello, thank You (!) for the many responses - I am surprised about how many people answered with suggestions, opinions, useful information and templates. I think I will give context a try - if it will run on my Vista-64 System. I will check that out in the next day(s). It sounds as a good

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 03:05:31PM +0200, Piotr napisa#322;(a): Hello, thank You (!) for the many responses - I am surprised about how many people answered with suggestions, opinions, useful information and templates. So you get the feeling of the ConTeXt community;). Well, sometimes it

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Wednesday 22 October 2008 09:13:20 Stephen A. Tjemkes wrote: The single frustrating element of context is the documentation. I use context now for many years (not on a daily basis though) for writing journal papers, posters, presentations etc. I think it is a great package. and the

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Oct 22 2008, John Devereux wrote: But one thing I still find is that the documentation for a command (when it exists at all) can list 20 parameters, of which only a couple are explained. I often still have no idea what the others do. The meaning may be obvious to typography or tex

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alan BRASLAU wrote: My question to the mailing list: is this task structured? Is this being managed by anyone? Unfortunately, not. Taco started working on the documentation and spent more than a month rewriting the font documentation. Most of the old manual is now under

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-21 Thread Jeff Smith
Hi, I will let the other, more experienced posters answer the bulk of your questions, as they will do better than I. But about Endnote, which I happen to use, alongside my own own doctoral dissertation writing under ConTeXt, I can share some of my experience. Although Endnote can export into

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-21 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-10-21 um 19:56 schrieb Piotr: 1) Finding the right context For now I had quite some difficulties to find that proper Latex distribution - a problem that actually led me to the existence of ConTeXt. I am wondering which latex distribution I should choose in order to work with ConTeXt?

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-21 Thread Diego Depaoli
2008/10/21 Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Or lets ask the devils advocate the other way around: What is the point of installing context, when latex could do the trick? Apart that I have to re-learn latex anyway.. what is better with Context? - ConTeXt's scripts know how often your

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-21 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:56:27PM +0200, Piotr napisa#322;(a): Hello, I have spent some time with google in order to find an answer to the following questions. Unfortunatly, I was not satisfied with the answers, which I now hope to find here. It is my plan not to use the MS Office

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-21 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:56 PM, Piotr wrote: For now I had quite some difficulties to find that proper Latex distribution You only have MikTeX and TeX Live. (I used to be a big MikTeX fan. Not much difference, but MikTeX is more user friendly for my biased taste; sadly lacking ConTeXt at the

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-21 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008, Piotr wrote: Hello, I have spent some time with google in order to find an answer to the following questions. Unfortunatly, I was not satisfied with the answers, which I now hope to find here. It is my plan not to use the MS Office suite for the production of my PhD

Re: [NTG-context] PhD Thesis in ConTeXt

2008-10-21 Thread Alan BRASLAU
I wrote my thesis using nroff... wouldn't want to do that again. Good luck! ___ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl /