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



On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 07:08:45PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Frank!
> 
> On Die, 19 Dez 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
> > > * Package name    : context
> > 
> > Fine :-)
> 
> It is time to get it into Debian I think. It was clear that it wont go
> into etch, but I want to see proper context support in lenny, and
> neither texlive upstream nor tetex has this.
> 
> Not that I care for ConTeXt, I am not a context user, but I want to have
> everything TeX related more or less up2date.
> 
> > > 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?"
> 
> You are heartly invited to write something better, it is all in our svn
> repository. I am quite bad in writing stupid texts (better in writing
> math) and I just copied the text from the website/description/doc.

  technically that's hard to do when you don't know it yet ;) the fact
that the upstream's website is poorly worded is not a very good excuse.
I've read the .pdf manual, and to me it's still unclear why context
should be better than the good old latex distro ;)

  PS: you made a mistake the web site is .nl and not .com
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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