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

2005-11-04 Thread Patrick Gundlach 
Hi Taco, all,

>What do you do with ConTeXT?

* use it as a reason to run contextgarden.net :-)
* Do presentations on it and with it. The tight metapost integration
  is just great too nice. 
* I love to play with new things that I think have a vital future and
  ConTeXt persuaded me right the first time I saw it on a presentation
  in Oldenburg or Dortmund (a DANTE meeting).
* prepare University papers and other pdf-based material. 

Actually, I do 50% of my typesetting with LaTeX. There are still
several things that I can't yet do with ConTeXt (some footnote layout
and table typesetting). 

I still need some time to generate test documents and ask on the lists
for the right way to layout these special cases. 

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

2005-11-04 Thread Duncan Hothersall 
>What do you do with ConTeXT?

I have a repository of learning materials which are marked up in
(DocBook-based) XML. They are in a few different languages (majority
English, with Spanish, Dutch and recently Chinese) and belong to several
different universities/training organisations on whose behalf we
maintain them. I convert the XML into ConTeX code in a batch process
using a text processing language, and then use ConTeXt to typeset the
result into books and booklets of different styles. We also produce web
versions of a lot of the materials, and I use ConTeXt (plus ImageMagick)
to create equation GIFs for maths that can't be rendered in pure HTML.

We probably have about 30 million words and 10,000 figures under
management, all held in the same XML structure, and need to run several
releases a day. As a result, all of the processes involved in
publishing, including the ConTeXt parts, are part of a batch workflow on
a server, and I rarely see the ConTeXt code itself (cos it usually just
works).

Thanks Hans!

Duncan
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