From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24379 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=E9r=F4me_Laurens?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Story of a newbie looking for a table Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:24 +0100 Message-ID: <34b7b46cfe240c92649b0aa75e3a8783@u-bourgogne.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134725599 30557 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 09:33:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 16 10:33:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnBx6-00067X-5z for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FD9A12825; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:34 +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 20583-07; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6607812815; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6085812815 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:27 +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 20814-01-2 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from haydn2002.u-bourgogne.fr (haydn2002.u-bourgogne.fr [193.50.50.62]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5B3127F1 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:26 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [193.50.49.80] (fermat.u-bourgogne.fr [193.50.49.80]) by haydn2002.u-bourgogne.fr (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id jBG9WPvI001080 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:25 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) X-Scanned-By: milter-limit/0.6.61 (haydn2002.u-bourgogne.fr [193.50.50.62]); Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:32:25 +0100 X-Miltered: at haydn02.u-bourgogne.fr with ID 43A289A9.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:24379 Archived-At: Hi (bis) I'd like to share my newbie experience about tables. With iPages, the ''fabulous, marvelous, amazing, simple" word processor from apple, It took me more or less half an hour to design and fill a table, with fixed width colored cells and so on. Unfortunately, once I saved the document, iPages could no longer open it anymore... :-( I then spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour) to try to repair things... with no success. With ConTeXt, I spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour) trying to design my table, and less than half an hour to fill it. Now the work is complete. :-) But I am not really satisfied, I feel frustrated because I have the impression that it took me too much time. It appears that neither texshow nor garden did help me. So I digged into standard Google, and it pointed me to the context mailing list archive, finally pointing me to the name of the right manual at pragma ADE. Fortunately, this up-to-date manual was online . Once, my work was complete, I understood that the Google search on context garden wiki was limited to context garden... I then found that some information I was missing about tables was on the context garden tabulate page...:-/ But I have the impression that the manuals do contain much more than available on contextgarden. So, is it possible to have the Google search engine at context garden also look into the manuals? Moreover, how do you formulate a request in standard google? Adding the "ConTeXt" key word does not lead to accurate results.