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I’ve been recently playing with AucTeX and decided to give ConTeXt a try. It’s a cousin of LaTeX but for typesetters. In other words, it’s for people who want TeX/LaTeX but need something beyond the boring default look. My first impression is that it’s a really good piece of software, but… with a huge learning curve. <!--break--> The ConTeXt folk should learn from the processing project, which I’ll blog about some day. It has only about 6 tutorials but hundreds of neatly organized examples. I was able to get a working project after only reading the short tutorials and using the examples as guides.
As far as I can tell, ConTeXt is nothing like this. To make it even more frustrating, I know exactly what I want ConTeXt to do and I know that ConTeXt is quite capable of doing it but I can’t seem to find the correct documentation and/or example. Of course, I may just end up taking back everything I write here as I become more familiar with the project. What I’ll do is just go with the flow —- see where the docs take me and report back.
Oh and what I want to do is (not exhaustive list): (1) actually change fonts, other than just switching between font families, (2) using custom headers, footers, and line numbers, (3) keep item lists together on the same page, (4) use custom enumeration on lists, like (A), (B), (C), etc., not just custom symbols.
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I’ve been recently playing with AucTeX and decided to give ConTeXt a try. It’s a cousin of LaTeX but for typesetters. In other words, it’s for people who want TeX/LaTeX but need something beyond the boring default look. My first impression is that it’s a really good piece of software, but… with a huge learning curve.
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The ConTeXt folk should learn from the processing project, which I’ll blog about some day. It has only about 6 tutorials but hundreds of neatly organized examples. I was able to get a working project after only reading the short tutorials and using the examples as guides.As far as I can tell, ConTeXt is nothing like this. To make it even more frustrating, I know exactly what I want ConTeXt to do and I know that ConTeXt is quite capable of doing it but I can’t seem to find the correct documentation and/or example. Of course, I may just end up taking back everything I write here as I become more familiar with the project. What I’ll do is just go with the flow —- see where the docs take me and report back.
Oh and what I want to do is (not exhaustive list): (1) actually change fonts, other than just switching between font families, (2) using custom headers, footers, and line numbers, (3) keep item lists together on the same page, (4) use custom enumeration on lists, like
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In my job, we work in Microsoft Word and MathType. But as any geek will tell you, “Word (and MathType) suck.” So I started editing in Emacs and AucTeX and then importing into MathType.
AucTeX is a little too powerful for my needs. I don’t really use LaTeX to typeset documents— I just use LaTeX for math equations. AucTeX, however, is an editing mode for LaTeX. Like other programming modes, it doesn’t let you do things like insert tabs (which I often need to do — I’m sure there’s a workaround but my emacs kung fu is a little rusty).
AucTeX also won’t let you work with a plain text file, so you’ll need to wrap your document in this:
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} Your document. \end{document}
In the windows version, unless I’m misunderstanding how equation previews work, preview at point does NOT work. When you preview at point, equations are rendered all over the place. However, preview document works fine in windows with its obvious disadvantage — for long documents or slow computers, you’ll be waiting a long time for the preview. Oh and if you’re a fan of longlines-mode, it doesn’t work with AucTeX. (Note that you don’t need this mode if you’re working with pure LaTeX — I do need it, though.)
Despite the whining, AucTeX is awesome. It’s definitely going to become part of my work flow.
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In my job, we work in Microsoft Word and MathType. But as any geek will tell you, “Word (and MathType) suck.” So I started editing in Emacs and AucTeX and then importing into MathType.
AucTeX is a little too powerful for my needs. I don’t really use LaTeX to typeset documents— I just use LaTeX for math equations. AucTeX, however, is an editing mode for LaTeX. Like other programming modes, it doesn’t let you do things like insert tabs (which I often need to do — I’m sure there’s a workaround but my emacs kung fu is a little rusty).
AucTeX also won’t let you work with a plain text file, so you’ll need to wrap your document in this:
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} Your document. \end{document}In the windows version, unless I’m misunderstanding how equation previews work,
preview at pointdoes NOT work. When you preview at point, equations are rendered all over the place. However,preview documentworks fine in windows with its obvious disadvantage — for long documents or slow computers, you’ll be waiting a long time for the preview. Oh and if you’re a fan oflonglines-mode, it doesn’t work with AucTeX. (Note that you don’t need this mode if you’re working with pure LaTeX — I do need it, though.)Despite the whining, AucTeX is awesome. It’s definitely going to become part of my work flow.
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