Hello Arash, >It seems that there is some support for scite:
> https://github.com/contextgarden/context-mirror/tree/beta/context/data >There is also some support for TeXworks. Yes, I know that. And since Scite is recommended by ConTeXt developers on their page, there're people using it for coding ConTeXt. BUT Emacs (+ AucTeX) has been becoming the standard for working with tex-files for years. I wouldn't change to any other editor ... and one reason to prefer Scite to Emacs editing ConTeXt might be the missing Emacs support for ConTeXt MkIV? >I have no idea about ConTeXt community, but do you think it is big enough and >the demand for Emacs support is large >enough to financially support somebody >to write that support? Of course, that someone is to be found (and will not >be >me). Tough! I personally think since Emacs/AucTeX is the state of the art-tool for editing TeX, you shouldn't refuse support for such an important TeX development like ConTeXt---it's true: it isn't the most popular TeX, but it might be the best. Missing popularity is reasonable, because there are no efforts at all coming from ConTeXt group to make the system more popular, so, there are not a huge community, and to learn some TeX structure again to use ConTeXt deters LaTeX users from switching to ConTeXT. Is there already a relevant community, big enough and hence worth to spent money developing an AucTeX support for ConTeXt MkIV? I wished I could simple say YES, go for it! But, I do not know? I can say, community is growing on a smooth level. In my opinion there'll be this future: If ConTeXt will be better known, LaTeX will become a TeX for private users and ConTeXt will be become the TeX for professional usage (universities, scientific corporates, publishing firms, technical editing offices and so on. Will ConTeXt better known in future? Who knows? Since I published already a book about LaTeX by Addison-Wesley, maybe I'll write that big ConTeXt book, closing the documentation gap and everyone switches? Maybe one big publisher discovers ConTeXt and its advantages to LaTeX and writes an article about it in the New York Times and it gets popular this way? This way or another, ConTeXt will increasingly assert itself in the future, I think. But, it could also be that ConTeXt go on sleeping his long sleep and never will wake up ... Look at me: My company have been using LaTeX for documentation purposes for more than eight years. But we almost stopped using TeX because XeTeX did not meet expectations of a modern editorial environment anymore. Then ConTeXt came along! Would have you asked me before about ConTeXt ... :)= ... but now! Will there be a huge community for ConTeXt one day? I don't know? Should AucTeX support ConTeXt MkIV in near future? Definitively yes! BEST, tobber Mit freundlichen Grüßen Tobias Berndt Technischer Redakteur baramundi software AG Beim Glaspalast 1 86153 Augsburg [email protected] www.baramundi.de Fon: +49 (821) 5 67 08 - 577 Fax: +49 (821) 5 67 08 - 19 Vorstand: Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Uwe Beikirch | Dipl.-Kfm. Karl Scheid Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Dipl.-Ing. Univ. (TUM) Norbert Klump Sitz und Registergericht: Augsburg, HRB-Nr. 2064 | USt-IdNr. DE 210294111 _______________________________________________ auctex mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/auctex
