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From: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Concerning the Wiki
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 10:23:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100305092320.GA13855@aides> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54d7f5601003041810o51ce4261o9db614c80646cf69@mail.gmail.com>


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On 2010-03-04 <20:10:43>, Michael Saunders wrote:
> > You mean like the beginner's manual
> >
> > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf
> ...
> > amongst 46 others by Pragma
> 
>  Most of these documents seem to be 5--12
> years old.  The wiki is even more patchy. -- 

Suggestion: Add <mkii>, <mkiv> and <both> tags to the wiki that somehow
(maybe using colored bars spanning the tagged text to the left …)
identify the version that a paragraph's text pertains to.

Right now it's pain reading through obsolete info about mkii for minutes
only to find a paragraph at the end of the page that says “And in MKIV
things work completely otherwise … please refer to ‘feature-mkiv.pdf’.”
(Yes, I exaggerated that one a bit.)

Finally, when those tags exist, untagged content should default to
<none> and have a Wikipedia-style begging label on top of the tagless
part, saying “This article needs help.  If you know about the
differences between MKII and MKIV please flag the existing statements.”


Philipp


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-05  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-05  2:10 suggestions for context documentation Michael Saunders
     [not found] ` <771da05a1003041822r1b056820jd198170aee3ab95@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-05  2:23   ` James Fisher
2010-03-05  4:34 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2010-03-05  5:14   ` Khaled Hosny
2010-03-05  5:19 ` Vnpenguin
2010-03-05  8:39 ` luigi scarso
2010-03-05  8:54 ` R. Bastian
2010-03-05  9:23 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2010-03-05 13:40 ` Marcin Borkowski

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