From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3270 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hraban Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Documentation Tasks (was: beginner's questions) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 15:04:32 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3A0EA36A.34730B16@gmx.net> References: <20001111173713.26A132317E@client44-3.kabela.oprit.rug.nl> <3A0DA106.B76033F2@pobox.com> Reply-To: angerweit@gmx.net NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394012 15572 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:26:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:26:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ConTeXt Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3270 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3270 Berend de Boer wrote: > I can't believe the latex docs are better. And consistency across the > (docs of the) many packages?? They are better, because there are many buyable books on it, even in german ;-) But you are right: None of this books covers all packages, and some packages are nearly undocumented. But further there are more people you can ask... > But could you be a bit more specific about "hard to find my way around > it." Because that is at least true for one person in this world, and if > there is one there are more. So if you can (try to) formulate what kind > of documentation would have helped you, perhaps this situation can be > improved. I miss such a elaborated FAQ like the german LaTeX-FAQ, that covers really most questions. I miss a table of the useable accents and symbols (math and other). I miss german docs. (Sorry, my english is a bit poor, and complicated matter is better to be understood without dictionary...) I miss a how-to-use-fonts introduction for dummies. (That's a critical point in LaTeX, too.) It should answer: What files for what type of fonts are needed, how can I make/get them, where must they go etc. I know that this is different on every system (and many of my problems may be caused by my deficient knowledge of Linux/X)... The beta manual could have hyperlinks (that would make its use easier). Further: It lists not all options of the commands, but some are/seem nowhere explained. (You've to try around a while.) Beside of these critics the beta manual is already better than many LaTeX books! (Siep, you may like the Companion -- at least the german translation is a bit chaotic.) At this state I can't convince publishing professionals to work with ConTeXt. Even if the local (La)Tex users group was excited about the nice ConTeXt code -- they asked too much questions that I couldn't answer or that I knew to be a problem (yet). And they said ConTeXt would be known to be slow. I don't only want to grumble -- I'm willing to co-work on the docs, but I must find some time first... :-( Thank you very much again, Hans -- I can't understand how you manage to earn money beside all your helpful work! ;-) Grüßlis vom Hraban! --- http://angerweit.tikon.ch/lieder/ http://www.planet-interkom.de/fiee.visuelle/formelsammlung.html