From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31086 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John R. Culleton" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: A new manual Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:20:02 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200609280920.02364.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159449922 17524 80.91.229.2 (28 Sep 2006 13:25:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:25:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 28 15:25:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GSvt0-0007VV-Uc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:25:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4122A1FF62; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:25:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08450-05; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:24:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 069DC1FF5D; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:24:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 590C71FF5D for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:24:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08559-03 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:24:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E62661FF59 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:24:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 69-175-76-40.chvlva.adelphia.net ([69.175.76.40]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060928132436.BQMJ28964.mta10.adelphia.net@69-175-76-40.chvlva.adelphia.net> for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:24:36 -0400 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:31086 Archived-At: What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features discussed daily here are not in it. One must chase around the wiki and the individual manuals like "details", and that is not satisfactory from the point of view of the new user. Most of us have memorized the locations of key information but newcomers have not. If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a lot of customers. Or an abridged version, something like the 1999 Excursion manual but expanded and updated, would be a possibility. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com