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From: Bill McClain <wmcclain@salamander.com>
Subject: docs for beginners
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:21:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C2361A4.3E08D2A5@salamander.com> (raw)

I am a beginner in the TeX and ConTeXt world, and am of course dazed and
confused. Before asking questions, I wanted to make sure I have all the
docs in English that I should.

My initial installation was from SuSE 7.2; since then I have downloaded
newer versions (including a recent beta) from www.ntg.nl/context/. 

Here are the docs I most often refer to:

ConTeXt the manual, January 27, 2000 (cont-enp.pdf)
Getting Started with ConTeXt (no date, old commands?)
(context-getting-started.pdf)
Fonts in ConTeXt, April 2001 (mfonts-beta.pdf)

Plus, the texshow application. (Giuseppe Bilotta mentioned this on
comp.text.tex, else I wouldn't have known about it).

Am I missing anything essential for a beginner? I am getting good
results so far, but I want to use the system properly and make life easy
for myself.

My first project is the prepress work for a collection of short stories
first published in 1895. Text only, pretty simple layout. I like
Computer Modern Roman, but may have to find a different outline font
more appropriate to the subject matter.

Thanks to all...

-Bill


             reply	other threads:[~2001-12-21 16:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-21 16:21 Bill McClain [this message]
2001-12-21 17:27 ` Hans Hagen
2001-12-21 18:54   ` Nigel King
2001-12-21 19:04     ` Frans Goddijn
2001-12-21 21:01       ` Sanjay Vohra
2001-12-21 21:58         ` Frans Goddijn
     [not found]           ` <3C23BEA2.B21D5B31@seb2.eng.ohio-state.edu>
     [not found]             ` <001c01c18a74$8bc57ea0$0400a8c0@arnhem.chello.nl>
     [not found]               ` <3C23CE16.20E5F676@seb2.eng.ohio-state.edu>
2001-12-22  5:04                 ` Frans Goddijn
     [not found]                   ` <3C24FA53.AD804F0@seb2.eng.ohio-state.edu>
     [not found]                     ` <00dd01c18b31$f38dcf20$6601a8c0@lap>
     [not found]                       ` <3C2506A8.FA2DF6B9@seb2.eng.ohio-state.edu>
2001-12-23 10:43                         ` Frans Goddijn
2001-12-24 11:07                   ` Hans Hagen
2001-12-21 23:07         ` Frans Goddijn
2001-12-24 11:04     ` Hans Hagen
2001-12-28 12:41       ` Nigel King
2002-01-04 21:48         ` Johannes H?sing
2001-12-21 19:58   ` Bill McClain
2001-12-24 10:59     ` Hans Hagen
2002-01-05 14:04     ` Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-01-05 19:59       ` Bill McClain
2002-01-05 23:19       ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-01-03 23:09   ` Matthias Klose
2002-01-04  7:26     ` Berend de Boer
2002-01-04  9:33       ` Hans Hagen
2001-12-21 18:04 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2001-12-21 18:28 ` Nigel King
2001-12-21 18:35 ` Berend de Boer

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