Re: Bug#403770: ITP: context -- A powerful TeX format

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
>
> * Package name    : context
>   Version         : 2006.12.17
>   Upstream Author : Hans Hagen 
> * URL             : http://www.pragme-ade.com
> * License         : GPLv2
>   Programming Lang: TeX
>   Description     : A powerful TeX format

Fine :-)

> ConTeXt is a typographical engine written in the typographical computer 
> language TeX. ConTeXt provides you with a convenient way to encode documents 
> in a structured way and to typeset these documents in various ways on paper, 
> computer screen or web site.
>
> Use ConTeXt to create simple documents and complex layouts. 

To me this long description sounds too much like marketing blurb and has
little information content.  The most important question that it should
answer is "what's the difference to the more known LaTeX?"

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)