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["Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joachim Schrod <jschrod@xxxxxxx> writes:

> I once did the internationalization of the LaTeX kernel
> (the stuff that Babel uses), but my current work is more
> infrastructure related. (Among others, I'm the owner of the LaTeX
> domain and provide the Web site stuff.) Oh yes, and I'm a co-author of
> the LaTeX Companion, 2nd ed. 

Ah.

> My real pet project is currently xindy, an index processor that
> supports 38 languages out of the box and UTF-8, http://www.xindy.org/

Looks interesting. Just downloaded it to try it out. 

> Thus, the answer to your question is probably clear. :-)

;-)

> That's not to say that I have never used ConTeXt. It comes with the
> territory; Hans Hagen is a friend of mine and we meet personally
> several times per year. So I had to use it at some time... ;-) But I'm
> more familiar with LaTeX and get faster results there.

I have only started looking at ConTeXt after several members of the
Emacs Muse list claim to have switched to it. It looks very powerful.

Charles