Re: [AUCTeX] ConTeXt MkIV Support

[David Kastrup]

Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> writes:

> On 2016-09-08, at 11:46, Tobias Berndt <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> 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 ...
>
> Given how many people in the maths community still use LaTeX 2.09, which
> should have been *dead* for some, I don't know, fifteen years or so -
> I seriously doubt that they will switch anytime soon.

The first LaTeX2e release news dates from 1994, 22 years ago.  If that
feels old, the first AUCTeX version is from 1991.

-- 
David Kastrup