From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6455 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Matthias Klose Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: docs for beginners Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:09:42 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <15412.58550.485016.316705@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <3C2361A4.3E08D2A5@salamander.com> <5.1.0.14.1.20011221182257.02f231a0@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396986 10786 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:16:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:16:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bill McClain , "ntg-context@ntg.nl" Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20011221182257.02f231a0@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6455 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6455 Hans Hagen writes: > At 10:21 AM 12/21/2001 -0600, Bill McClain wrote: > >I am a beginner in the TeX and ConTeXt world, and am of course dazed and > >confused. Before asking questions, I wanted to make sure I have all the > >docs in English that I should. > > > >My initial installation was from SuSE 7.2; since then I have downloaded > >newer versions (including a recent beta) from www.ntg.nl/context/. > > i'm not sure if that server is already in sync with > > www.pragma-pod.nl > > (will be www.pragma-ade.com again soon) > > >Here are the docs I most often refer to: > > > >ConTeXt the manual, January 27, 2000 (cont-enp.pdf) > >Getting Started with ConTeXt (no date, old commands?) > >(context-getting-started.pdf) > >Fonts in ConTeXt, April 2001 (mfonts-beta.pdf) I did have the same "problem" looking for documentation. I like the design of the web pages, but at a first look you cannot find anything. The information you give here (how up to date are the docs) should belong on the site. You download a manual and realize, that it's for an earlier version :-( I know of at least one person giving up on ConTeXt because it was difficult to get the documentation matching the software. Another suggestion would be a section, how to get started with popular distributions. Which ConTeXt version is included in popular TeX distributions as teTeX or MikTeX (again, with which version)? What needs to be done to upgrade to current versions? Probably I am a bit fastidious (sorry, word taken from a dictionary) by using a Debian GNU/Linux distribution, but a bit more guidance would be helpful ... Matthias