From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38946 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Arthur Reutenauer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt book Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:05:16 +0100 Message-ID: <20080204180515.GA28560@phare.normalesup.org> References: <200802040027.13789.matija.suklje@rutka.net> Reply-To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202151013 26507 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2008 18:50:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 18:50:13 +0000 (UTC) To: Mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Feb 04 19:50:31 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JM6Oj-0002rM-JD for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:50:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ECDC1FC01; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:49:58 +0100 (CET) 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 04954-01; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:49:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E03531FB72; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:45:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02AE51FB1F for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:45:32 +0100 (CET) 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 02276-01 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:45:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nef2.ens.fr (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.40]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F25A81FD83 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:05:16 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from phare.normalesup.org (phare.normalesup.org [129.199.129.80]) by nef2.ens.fr (8.13.6/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id m14I5Gse040174 for ; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:05:16 +0100 (CET) X-Envelope-To: Original-Received: by phare.normalesup.org (Postfix, from userid 1008) id 0F87338077; Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:05:16 +0100 (CET) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200802040027.13789.matija.suklje@rutka.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.1.4 (nef2.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]); Mon, 04 Feb 2008 19:05:16 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:38946 Archived-At: > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________