Re: ConTeXt book

[Arthur Reutenauer <arthur.reutenauer@normalesup.org>]

> I've been wondering ...does anyone know of any good (printed) book to learn 
> ConTeXt?

  The ConTeXt book ... it has been a bit of a Holy Grail for quite a
while, and it looks like it will be some more time until it is found.

  The reason why there is no comprehensive book yet is not clear to me;
maybe Hans' documents were too intimidating in the first place and
nobody dared enhance them ;-)  But it's obvious that things can only
become worse over time, because on the other hand there is quite a lot
of sparse documentation about various aspects of ConTeXt, and it's not
straightforward to gather it all in a comprehensive and coherent way --
by the way, I wish to protest here against the oft-repeated lament
"There is not enough documentation about ConTeXt" (something you hear at
lot on this list): I think it's completely biased, there is a lot of
documentation concerning ConTeXt and it probably covers all the
subjects; the only problem is that it's scattered.  Even on the wiki,
it's not always straightforward to find answers to a particular question
(even if the answer to that exact question is there).

  Maybe this would be a way to start, organizing meta-information in the
wiki, starting, of course, from pages where such information has already
been gathered like http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation
and http://wiki.contextgarden.net/FAQ -- and of course, this should also
be discussed at the ConTeXt meeting in Bohinj, where I trust all
interested parties should come ;-)

	Arthur
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