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There's also [ConTeXt](https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page) which is around 0.4 Gb. I have found it better in many
by evgeniysharapov 7y ago
There's also [ConTeXt](https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page) which is around 0.4 Gb. I have found it better in many respects and so could you.
- pfortuny 7y agoI should know (have been using LaTeX for nearly 30 years) but... what does ConTeXt give that LaTeX does not? I have never made heads or tails of it. Thanks.
- nanna 7y agoI wanted to ask the same thing. In my head ConTeXt is to LaTeX as XML is to HTML, a more general variant of the same language. Is that analogy plausible? In what use cases would ConTeXt make more sense than LaTeX?
- svat 7y agoLaTeX was written and basically frozen in the 80s/early 90s (LaTeX 2e is from 1994). The core ("kernel") of LaTeX cannot be changed as a lot of documents would break. Since then, a very large number of users of varying competence have written ad-hoc packages to extend or customize it. To change the appearance the recommendation often given is to write a .sty file, which is something of a dark art. ConTeXt is from about a decade later, after some lessons were learned. More here: - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/223177/what-is-the-mindset-to-take-when-using-context-vs-latex https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/223177/what-is-the-m... - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4987/why-should-i-be-interested-in-context/5007#5007 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/4987/why-should-i-be... - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1887/what-typesetting-system-should-i-use/1888#1888 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1887/what-typesettin... - https://tug.org/interviews/hagen.html https://tug.org/interviews/hagen.html - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29979/how-do-latex3-and-context-compare https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/29979/how-do-latex3-... - https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/447566/health-of-context-community https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/447566/health-of-con... My impression: What you get with LaTeX is a larger ecosystem and greater likelihood that someone has already done what you need (in some package or other, though it may be only "close" and figuring out how to improve it may be hard). What you get with ConTeXt, at the cost of having to re-learn everything you learned about LaTeX and not being able to use any of the LaTeX packages, is a more consistently designed interface, a greater understanding of what's going on, more ease of modifying things (instead of the "there's a package for that" phenomenon), and best of all not having to "program" in the TeX macro "language" (you can use Lua).