[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

[Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

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Thank you Sir Coleman. I’m a Context beginner and I’d love a good book introducing me to Context. I’ve wasted many hours trying to figure out how to do things that turned out to be simple.

The answer is often/sometimes buried in the documentation, and what would really help me is a book that is more of an index to the existing documentation that is not out of date, with perhaps some simple examples. One case that comes to mind is to pass a couple of numbers to Lua, have it do a calculation and use the result in Context.

Regards,
Peter

> On 14/02/2024, at 9:03 AM, Sir Coleman via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
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> Acknowledged.
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> However, this does reinforce my point, that the documentation needs to be updated. The examples on the wiki still use \getcounter, and naturally they all fail to compile. Hence, my ambition to create a book to serve as the documentation, which I find is a better medium for communication rather than wikis.
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> Now, as to my question, to understand the low level TeX programming language, will the manuals "Low Level TeX" be enough?
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> Thanks.
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