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From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: my new page on layout
Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:39:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050327193907.9671@mailhost.zen.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050327172849.GB2006@localhost.localdomain>

Paul Tremblay said this at Sun, 27 Mar 2005 12:28:49 -0500:

>One soluton is to put a type of disclaimer at the top of each page:
>"This primary audience for this page is XML authors who want to use
>ConTeXt to format an XML document." 

That would make me happier. Adding some words like "one way of many" and
"simplification for the sake of instruction" would be even better.

>Thanks again. I think your input has made my document stronger, and I
>hope my document will help my ConTeXt easier to understand, even in a
>small way. 

I might sound harsh at times, but I *do* appreciate what you're trying to
do. Layout stuff is under-represented in the documentation, especially
the newer stuff.

adam

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-27 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-26 17:43 Paul Tremblay
2005-03-26 19:17 ` VnPenguin
2005-03-26 20:14 ` Vit Zyka
2005-03-26 21:39   ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-26 22:20     ` Vit Zyka
2005-03-27  6:51       ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-26 23:35 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-03-27  6:55   ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-27 10:38     ` Adam Lindsay
2005-03-27 17:28       ` Paul Tremblay
2005-03-27 18:39         ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
2005-03-27 19:10         ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2005-03-27 19:44       ` Vit Zyka
2005-03-27 11:00   ` Willi Egger
2005-03-27 10:18 ` Otared Kavian
2005-03-28 15:09 ` h h extern
     [not found] <20050328100003.BB8CE127B4@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-03-28 10:12 ` Duncan Hothersall

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