From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15877 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Gary Pajer" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation? Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 21:57:07 -0400 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <006b01c47834$045cf550$38f25644@playroom> References: <4.3.1.2.20040801150452.01a55c40@cits1.stanford.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091411943 16325 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2004 01:59:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 01:59:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 02 03:58:53 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BrS6H-0007aN-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 03:58:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9638C1276C; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:58:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15131-08; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:58:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C3F1277B; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:57:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C59101277B for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:57:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 15131-07 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:57:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (unknown [204.127.202.55]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ACDD1276C for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 03:57:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from playroom (pcp05040778pcs.levtwn01.pa.comcast.net[68.86.242.56]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with SMTP id <200408020157060110005gpae>; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 01:57:06 +0000 Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1441 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15877 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15877 I would guess that it boils down to the fact that Hans, despite a staggeringly remarkable likeness in appearance, is not Superman. But I, and others, share your pain. The efforts of Hans and the regulars on this group make up for it in large measure. (BTW, Thank You to all the regulars) and the Wiki and Texshow-web have great potential to help ... if they really catch fire. -gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brooks Moses" To: "ConTeXt users list" Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 6:23 PM Subject: [NTG-context] Best source of ConTeXt documentation? > In my efforts to learn ConTeXt, I'm continually getting stuck by a lack of > having complete documentation. For example, consider the \definestartstop > command, which I was recently looking at. > > * In the cont-enp.pdf manual, it's not mentioned. > > * In the mp-cp-en.pdf manual, there's an example of it, but it's not really > very clear what the difference is between what the "commands=" and > "before=" options do. In addition, there's no indication whether these are > all the possible options or not, or whether there's any way to define a > start/stop pair that takes an argument. > > * In the source, I can find the definitions, but for that particular one > there seems to be very little commentary, and I also suspect I'd need to be > rather familiar with the ConTeXt core before I could understand it -- I > certainly can't see where the "before=" goes in, for instance. > > And that's about all I know about, other than doing a Google search on the > mailing-list archives, which rarely addresses the general stuff. > > Is this all due to an actual lack of documentation for ConTeXt itself, or > is there something large and important that I'm missing? > > Thanks, > - Brooks > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context