From: David Wooten <dw@trichotomic.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Is there anything like developer's manual for ConTeXt?
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:00:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1F4D9612-06EF-4571-88C6-1B2EEA559CC7@trichotomic.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49BFCDD9.6090507@fastmail.fm>
On Mar 17, 2009, at 9:20 AM, Rory Molinari wrote:
> Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>> Corin Royal Drummond wrote:
>>> Many have voiced the same complaint. I understand that Hans and
>>> every
>>> one are occupied with building MKIV (aka LuaTeX), and that
>>> documentation
>>> is not their highest priority. There's the wiki, the wonderfully
>>> active
>>> mailing list, and what used to be decent docs from 2001/2002
>>> timeframe. But yes, it's a steep hill to climb, made worth it only
>>> by the relative
>>> awesomeness of ConTeXt.
>> You missed the reference manual rewrite effort (which is now in
>> remission mostly because of an extremely depressing lack of user
>> feedback).
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page#Documentation
>
> Hi Taco,
>
> I'm sorry that I haven't given much feedback on the documentation
> project. I got through the Typography chapter, but then was so
> confounded by the Fonts chapter that I didn't feel able to give
> comments. I will make another attempt.
>
> Cheers,
> Rory
Hi, I'd like to second what Rory said. I was delighted by my first
reading of the typography chapter, and had not seen the font chapter
until you posted the link above, Taco. I'm also sorry not to have
chimed in before.
Dave
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-18 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-17 1:55 Wei-Wei Guo
2009-03-17 2:33 ` Corin Royal Drummond
2009-03-17 8:16 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-17 16:20 ` Rory Molinari
2009-03-18 22:00 ` David Wooten [this message]
2009-03-19 13:48 ` Michael Bynum
2009-03-19 13:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-19 23:32 ` Curious Learn
2009-03-19 23:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
2009-03-20 9:53 ` Jesse Alama
2009-03-17 8:33 ` Xan
2009-03-17 8:36 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-17 8:47 ` Xan
2009-03-17 8:50 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-17 10:52 ` Wei-Wei Guo
2009-03-19 14:14 ` luigi scarso
2009-03-17 7:57 ` Taco Hoekwater
2009-03-17 9:03 ` Alan Stone
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