From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15876 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brooks Moses Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Best source of ConTeXt documentation? Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2004 15:23:02 -0700 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <4.3.1.2.20040801150452.01a55c40@cits1.stanford.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091399036 27961 80.91.224.253 (1 Aug 2004 22:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 22:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 02 00:23:43 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BrOk3-0000CZ-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 00:23:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 329E012783; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:23:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14924-01; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:23:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2F011276F; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:23:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0311276F for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:23:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 14801-02 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:23:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp1.Stanford.EDU (unknown [171.67.16.123]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75DF11276C for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 00:23:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from Brooks1.stanford.edu (DNab42a4d5.Stanford.EDU [171.66.164.213]) by smtp1.Stanford.EDU (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i71MNTPo025935 for ; Sun, 1 Aug 2004 15:23:32 -0700 X-Sender: brooks@cits1.stanford.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Original-To: ConTeXt users list X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15876 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15876 In my efforts to learn ConTeXt, I'm continually getting stuck by a lack of having complete documentation. For example, consider the \definestartstop command, which I was recently looking at. * In the cont-enp.pdf manual, it's not mentioned. * In the mp-cp-en.pdf manual, there's an example of it, but it's not really very clear what the difference is between what the "commands=" and "before=" options do. In addition, there's no indication whether these are all the possible options or not, or whether there's any way to define a start/stop pair that takes an argument. * In the source, I can find the definitions, but for that particular one there seems to be very little commentary, and I also suspect I'd need to be rather familiar with the ConTeXt core before I could understand it -- I certainly can't see where the "before=" goes in, for instance. And that's about all I know about, other than doing a Google search on the mailing-list archives, which rarely addresses the general stuff. Is this all due to an actual lack of documentation for ConTeXt itself, or is there something large and important that I'm missing? Thanks, - Brooks