From: Paulo Ney de Souza <desouza@Math.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject: Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:30:55 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200408021930.i72JUtUC001051@blue1.Math.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
>From ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 2 09:08:22 2004
>From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
>To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
>Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Best source of ConTeXt documentation?
>Cc:
>
>- it would take a lot of effort to keep such a source code repository up
>to date and in sync (else too many questions) with the pdf repositoty
If we are talking about examples, ones does not need to have the latest
manual and the latest source in sync. Just one copy of the manual (that
will eventually go old) and one copy of the source.
For example, the Calculator, mixing TeX and JavaScript
http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/calculat.pdf
has NOT changed in many years now, so there is no problem maitaining the
PDF and the source in sync...
>- we only publish documented sources
That is an important point ... and the only one I can give credit to,
but I still think the abundance of examples, even without documentation,
is better than the short of examples.
>- i want to stimulate users to writ etheir own styles not to mimick
>existing ones (i.e. avoid the 'all tex files look the same' problem)
....
>so ... there are no hidden tricks (unless it would bother/confuse
>users); and .. things like cover designs i wanna keep for myself if only
>to avoid cutting and pasting
>Hans
Hans: Imitation is indeed the truest form of flattery!
Paulo Ney
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2004-08-02 19:30 Paulo Ney de Souza [this message]
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2004-08-03 15:13 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03 17:44 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03 5:05 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03 6:40 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03 9:56 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-08-03 3:05 skhilji
2004-08-03 6:38 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03 7:09 ` Hans Hagen
2004-08-02 14:57 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-02 15:46 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-02 23:13 ` Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03 6:31 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-02 16:08 ` Hans Hagen
2004-08-02 2:55 skhilji
2004-08-01 22:23 Brooks Moses
2004-08-02 1:57 ` Gary Pajer
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