TeX etc. for typesetting complex layouts

TeX etc. for typesetting complex layouts

Posted Jun 11, 2007 12:26 UTC (Mon) by sanjoy (subscriber, #5026)
In reply to: full circle magazine - #1 released! by jordanb
Parent article: full circle magazine - #1 released!

I agree about using TeX rather than LaTeX. I used plain TeX (and eplain) for over 15 years very happily. To avoid reinventing lots of wheels, I recently switched from TeX to ConTeXt, skipping LaTeX entirely. ConTeXt was originally designed for school math books, which have lots of figures and diagrams scattered all over. It is well engineered and has support for complex layouts, and I use it for my university-level mathematics and physics textbooks. Here is one.

Most of plain TeX still works unchanged, so I could use my old TeX knowledge and add bits of ConTeXt as I learnt it.

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