manuals

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi,

Thanks for all comments and remarks so far. The process of translation
is as follows: I wrote he dutch manual. Ton translates it into english.
I translate the commands and check the examples. Then I upload the pdf
files and when I get feedback I correct the errors you send me. Typical
something to do while running big jobs. 

There are several bottlenecks in this process: the speed of translating
the text (ton), the speed of checking the samples (me) and correcting
the errors (you and me). A complicating factor is that (later on) some
examples are word-jokes or games related to the meaning of macros. We'll
see how these end up. 

Keep in mind that this is the ref manual and not for beginners. I expect
readers to be familiar with the basics of context. 

For the moment we are thinking of 6 manuals: 

(1) the beginners manual 
(2) the big manual, focused on paper work 
(3) making interactive documents 
(4) (meta) graphics in context
(5) fine points of texing (typography)
(6) presentations in context 

1 is sort of finished (but will be updated / stripped a bit soon), 2 is
under construction, 6 comes probably next, then 3, 4 and 5 will evolve.
It sort of keeps me busy. 

Hans

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