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October 26, 2004

TeX Shit

A short recap of 49’ers: it was awesome, thanks to everyone I got to see. I had an awesome time and it took me a day to recover. :)

Baird caught me for just a few minutes and we talked about revision control, blogging and DocBook. I told him about my recent troubles and he found for me something called dblatex which apparently lets you deal with DocBook from LaTeX. Then I found out on my own about this thing called ConTeXt, which is a completely different macro package from LaTeX with a different design, but attempting to do many of the same things. I intend to look at it in more detail and see if I like it but it doesn’t look as though there is anything like the LaTeX books for it (yet).

ConTeXt is nice looking for at least a few reasons:

  1. It has an XML processor built-in, so if you want, you can just define macros for elements and so forth and process your XML directly
  2. It looks cleaner and more flexible than LaTeX
  3. It doesn’t break anything in TeX to make it happen (not that I really cared before)

All of the example shit I see made in it looks really elaborate and pretty, especially compared to LaTeX. On the other hand, there isn’t much written about it. I may consider it for my book, or DocBook using it to create the printed version.

Baird wanted to talk about revision control. I basically go with Subversion now, not because Arch and Monotone aren’t cool, but because I’m actually lazy and I find Arch non-aesthetically pleasing. I really should check out Monotone. If anyone has, and has something good to say about it, they should tell me about it, particularly if they’ve used the other two as well. CVS is just nasty.

Anyone who likes metal or opera or awesomeness should go listen to the new Nightwish album “Once.” It rocks pretty hard.

I really should put up a page with projects I aim to work on someday.

Posted by FusionGyro at October 26, 2004 11:13 PM

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