Re: ConTeXt in Erlangen

[Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>]

Hallo Henning  and others,

> I'm frustrated. There's nothing other left to tell to the people as
> "RTFM".

well, that is only partially true. My experience is that you have to have a 
good overview about context in order to know what can be done. And, 
compared to latex, there is a different kind of thinking: compare 
redefining the layout of sections in context and latex. So it would be nice 
to tell the people "these things can be done in context easily and this is 
the way it is accomplished". I don't think it is necessary to explain the 
exact details. Perhaps you can have a look at http://levana.de/context to 
see what I mean. I once had a context presentation at a local linux user 
group (and a local TeX group) and just showed them some exaples.

> After a longer abstinence I just compiled the latest pdfTeX, installed
> the latest ConTeXt and had a look at the docs - and it's everything
> there. All I could tell to beginners is "read the docs, they're perfect".

well, a beginner will not know that it is good to use a perl script to 
start TeX. And tetex is not really prepared to do this out of the box.

> Should I really present only a translation?
> (Patrick, what do you think?)
No, "just" an overview. I think you did a nice job in Rosenheim at the TeX 
conference, where you did not go into detail too much but presented a good 
overview about the problems of publishing in general. That was really 
valuable.

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Viele Grüße, 

    Patrick Gundlach