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How does ConTeXt compare with LaTeX and Word? It has been around forever, but for some reason it is always absent from these sorts of discussions.
by smnrchrds 6y ago
How does ConTeXt compare with LaTeX and Word? It has been around forever, but for some reason it is always absent from these sorts of discussions.
- moonchild 6y agoWhen compared with word, context is not readily distinguishable from latex. It's more or less a cleaned up version of the language with a slightly different philosophy behind its macros.
- minusf 6y agocontext from the start used the pdftex engine and lua was a first class citizen. havent used it in a while but it's quite different from latex, it's much closer to original tex. while latex needs plugins for many extra features from all kinds of sources, and these plugins sometimes fight between themselves, context is more like bsd or django: comes with batteries included and i found it a much nicer experience.