Re: Change whitespace before item?

[U Avalos <amscopub-mail@yahoo.com>]

You're right I should know better 

On Tuesday 11 August 2009 14:32:32 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:13:02 -0600, Stéphane Goujet
>
> <stephane.goujet@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> >   I have tried posting questions once or twice and I never got a single
> > answer. The result is that, now, I do not post them here any more.
>
> Just try again and don't take it personally. That's what I've done for
> years. As a last resort, write Hans, Taco or whoever is most relevant to
> your question directly and say, "I've posted this to the list a couple of
> times and have not goten an answer yet. Could you take a look?"
>
> Key: politeness and persistence :-)
>
> The developers are very busy, well, developing. Be patient with them.
>
> >   The flow of development/"high level" messages (that I do not
> > understand) is important, too important for me to see and possibly try
> > to answer most end-users questions. Perhaps it would be time to split
> > this mailing-list in 2 parts, one really for users and the other for
> > developpers, beta testers, package programmers, etc.
>
> That has already been done ;-) But understand that ConTeXt is a HUGE
> system, and hardly anyone understands it all.
>
> >   Of course, the drawback of doing this is that the gurus will not be
> > interested in following the users' list and will be kept busy with other
> > lists, so they will not be present to enlighten beginners.
>
> In my experience this is simply not the case. One could create at least
> one book out of, say, Wolfgang's answers to newbies and users in general
> [actually, that might not be such a bad idea].
>
> Best wishes
> Idris

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