From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/1610 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Erik Frambach" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: (Fwd) note from Prof Knuth Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 16:38:13 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <200001311539.QAA29779@dep.eco.rug.nl> 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 1035392432 1786 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:00:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:00:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:1610 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:1610 Dear ConTeXt users, Finally Don Knuth found time to give "4TeX for Windows" a try, and he even took time to read the (551 pp.) book! I will not copy his entire comments here, since most of it is not relevant to this list, but the following piece is: \startquote PART 1, THE BOOK: As an author myself, I know that I very much appreciate receiving error reports from people who have tried to read my books, even though I am sad to have made the errors they report. At least they did try to read the material, which is pretty amazing since this world contains so many other things to do! Thus I hope you will be not too unhappy to see the following list of corrections, which prove that I have read most of the pages of your book. Before I get into the list, let me also say how much I admire your courage in writing such a book in a language that is not your mother tongue. I could not imagine myself ever doing such a thing. Your use of English is in general quite pleasant except as noted below. Second, the parts I did not read were chapters 17 and 18. My life is alas too short to learn the complexities of LaTeX and ConTeXt, since those programs don't solve any of the problems that I personally am faced with. Please however tell Hans Hagen that I have always been extremely impressed by his work on ConTeXt and by the many incredibly beautiful things that have been done with it already. Also I think the introduction in Chapter 18 is brilliantly done, especially with respect to the running example about Hasselt --- surely this is the best idea for a user manual that I've ever seen, and it has been worked out here with great taste and wit, a real tour de force. In spite of this, I got to that chapter at 11pm when my normal bedtime was 10pm, so I had to skim it and limit my remarks to infelicities in the documentation of Hasselt; I had no time to absorb the documentation of ConTeXt itself, although I will not hesitate to recommend it to my friends. \stopquote