From: Philipp Gesang <pgesang@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:42:43 +0100 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1103132309260.1160@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
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On 2011-03-13 <23:12:36>, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
>
> >Speaking as a raw ConTeXt beginner, I would find it very helpful to have a
> >library of different styles: LaTeX, journal, conference and book styles.
> >Although all the information is probably there, it is very scattered around
> >though manuals, the wiki, and other documents, and so is in consequence not
> >always easy to find.
>
> Why don't you create a wiki page with the **exact** specifications.
> Then others can write the ConTeXt code to show how to achieve that
> specification.
> We can perhaps have a cookbook section on the wiki, which can use
> these specification as exercise.
+1, best idea so far. Not only regarding latex-specific
commonplaces but for typographical tasks in general (along the
lines of “how I implemented Bringhurst’s chapter enumeration”
&c.). Would it suffice to just create another wiki namespace
like the command reference has?
(Entries should have a date stamp and state the context version
they were written for.)
Philipp
> Without the exact specification,
> it is very difficult to understand what a "journal" style or a
> "book" style means. Not all journals and books have the same style.
>
> Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-14 10:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-12 23:35 Henry House
2011-03-13 7:54 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-03-13 9:00 ` Thomas Schmitz
2011-03-13 11:43 ` "latex style" (was : Re: Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?) Peter Münster
2011-03-13 20:34 ` Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden? Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-14 0:07 ` Alasdair McAndrew
2011-03-14 3:12 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-14 10:42 ` Philipp Gesang [this message]
2011-03-14 3:32 ` mathew
2011-03-14 4:21 ` Alasdair McAndrew
2011-03-14 4:54 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-03-14 6:33 ` Alasdair McAndrew
2011-03-14 7:07 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2011-03-14 9:17 ` Martin Schröder
2011-03-14 10:43 ` Alasdair McAndrew
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2011-03-10 14:38 \setuppublications problem Jean Magnan de Bornier
2011-03-11 12:00 ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2011-03-12 7:37 ` Jean Magnan de Bornier
2011-03-12 10:09 ` Thomas Schmitz
2011-03-12 10:45 ` Florian Wobbe
2011-03-12 11:08 ` Thomas Schmitz
2011-03-12 12:21 ` Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden? Florian Wobbe
2011-03-12 13:05 ` Marco
2011-03-12 14:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-12 16:20 ` Procházka Lukáš
2011-03-12 20:02 ` Jaroslav Hajtmar
2011-03-12 20:08 ` C.
2011-03-12 23:04 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-03-14 7:46 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-03-14 20:26 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-03-14 21:15 ` mathew
2011-03-13 7:01 ` Vnpenguin
2011-03-13 4:48 ` mathew
2011-03-13 5:03 ` Pontus Lurcock
2011-03-13 6:25 ` luigi scarso
2011-03-14 13:04 ` Carlos Breton Besnier
2011-03-14 15:16 ` Carlos Breton Besnier
2011-03-16 12:37 ` Vedran Miletić
2011-04-26 10:27 ` Ian Lawrence
2011-03-14 15:17 ` Carlos Breton
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