[XeTeX] XeTeX documentation "initiative"

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 02:45:30AM -0700, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> > 
> > If you ever struggled coercing LaTeX to lay out your
> > document the way
> > you want it, you will really appreciate this ConTeXt
> > feature.
> 
> The thing is, as many LaTeX manuals state: "You don't want to worry about layout, instead focus on content." I think this is true of many latex users. Indeed, if you are professional typesetter, then context probably much more applicable. The point is that when we make our documentations, tutorials or manuals, we have to have a certain mental image of the group for which we write the manual. If the objective is to introduce xelatex to a group of users who are not very deeply immersed in either professional layout or computer science, I think that context is not the way to go.

It was not meant to be anything against latex nor your documentation
plans, I was just pointing out that the "problem" with ConTeXt is
actually one of its selling features. I do use LaTeX when the fine
details of the layout is not important (and when I also want to use some
LaTeX package).

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer