From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44982 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=BCnster?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PhD Thesis in ConTeXt Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:53:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20081022185339.GA1779@gaston.couberia.bzh> References: <48FEEEAA.2836.003C.0@eumetsat.int> <27540564-A6EA-4035-996D-145DA7CB87B9@st.estfiles.de> <8763nkx0fy.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> 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 1224710617 26555 80.91.229.12 (22 Oct 2008 21:23:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:23:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Oct 22 23:24:37 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KslC1-0003qc-7e for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:24:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC4F1FB7E; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:23:29 +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 08070-01-2; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:22:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096C41FB57; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:22:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 240A61FB72 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:22:36 +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 07365-04-5 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp2a.orange.fr (smtp2a.orange.fr [80.12.242.138]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 703281FB4E for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf2a04.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 0B2C87000095 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:22:00 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from gaston.couberia.bzh (ARennes-358-1-80-193.w90-54.abo.wanadoo.fr [90.54.143.193]) by mwinf2a04.orange.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DBFEA70000A1 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:21:59 +0200 (CEST) X-ME-UUID: 20081022212159901.DBFEA70000A1@mwinf2a04.orange.fr Original-Received: by gaston.couberia.bzh (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4593B301F1; Wed, 22 Oct 2008 20:53:39 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Followup-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8763nkx0fy.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) 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:44982 Archived-At: On Wed, Oct 22 2008, John Devereux wrote: > But one thing I still find is that the documentation for a command > (when it exists at all) can list 20 parameters, of which only a couple > are explained. I often still have no idea what the others do. The > meaning may be obvious to typography or tex professionals, but not to > me unfortunately. If they have standard meanings perhaps they could be > hyperlinked to an explanation page? Indeed. One thing is still missing: the complete ConTeXt reference manual, in other words "texshow" in form of a book and complete. Complete means: - description of every command - description of every parameter - description of every possible value for a parameter - examples This is work in progress: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextman Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________