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List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: From: Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context Cc: Peter Hopcroft Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============2946973211045304536==" --===============2946973211045304536== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-5DCDBF6A-8EDC-4D98-AD2F-6FBA993F40A1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --Apple-Mail-5DCDBF6A-8EDC-4D98-AD2F-6FBA993F40A1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thank you Sir Coleman. I=E2=80=99m a Context beginner and I=E2=80=99d love a= good book introducing me to Context. I=E2=80=99ve wasted many hours trying t= o figure out how to do things that turned out to be simple. The answer is often/sometimes buried in the documentation, and what would re= ally help me is a book that is more of an index to the existing documentatio= n that is not out of date, with perhaps some simple examples. One case that c= omes 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 wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFAcknowledged. >=20 > However, this does reinforce my point, that the documentation needs to be u= pdated. The examples on the wiki still use \getcounter, and naturally they a= ll fail to compile. Hence, my ambition to create a book to serve as the docu= mentation, which I find is a better medium for communication rather than wik= is. >=20 > Now, as to my question, to understand the low level TeX programming langua= ge, will the manuals "Low Level TeX" be enough? >=20 > Thanks. > __________________________________________________________________________= _________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! >=20 > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://mailman.ntg.nl/mailman3/lists/ntg-= context.ntg.nl > webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / https://context.aanhet.net (mirror)= > archive : https://github.com/contextgarden/context > wiki : https://wiki.contextgarden.net > __________________________________________________________________________= _________ --Apple-Mail-5DCDBF6A-8EDC-4D98-AD2F-6FBA993F40A1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Thank you Sir Coleman. I=E2=80=99m a Context beginne= r and I=E2=80=99d love a good book introducing me to Context. I=E2=80=99ve w= asted many hours trying to figure out how to do things that turned out to be= simple.

=

The answer is often/sometimes buried in the docu= mentation, and what would really help me is a book that is more of an index t= o the existing documentation that is not out of date, with perhaps some simp= le examples. One case that comes to mind is to pass a couple of numbers to L= ua, 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 &= lt;ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:

=EF=BB=BFAcknowledged.
=
However, this does reinforce my point, that the documentation need= s to be updated. The examples on the wiki still use \getcounter, and natural= ly 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.

Now, as to my question, to und= erstand the low level TeX programming language, will the manuals "Low Level T= eX" be enough?

Thanks.
____= ____________________________________________________________________________= ___
If your question is of interest to others as well, pleas= e add an entry to the Wiki!

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