Observations

  • ConTeXt is written in Dutch. Not knowing the language makes it difficult to follow the meaning of commands.
  • Having limited understanding of ConTeXt, too much time was spent on brute force experiments and tracing of computations
  • General purpose environments similar to \begin{...} ... \end{...} in LaTeX are most rewarding. They require very few hooks, and cover large sets of commands. ConTeXt offers such environments (\??xx).
  • Lack of clear semantics makes it difficult to provide intelligent configurations (e.g., this seems to be the case for enumerated versus description lists)
  • Hooks at different levels of grouping make it difficult to communicate and transfer information between the hooks (e.g., \@@somedefinitie seems to require such a case)

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