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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:08:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <410E66EE.10802@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408021457.i72Ev94B025117@blue1.Math.Berkeley.EDU>

Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:

>This is one of the sore points of ConTeXt and of the development
>  
>
i addition to patricks remarks:

- it would take a lot of effort to keep such a source code repository up 
to date and in sync (else too many questions) with the pdf repositoty
- we only publish documented sources
- i want to stimulate users to writ etheir own styles not to mimick 
existing ones (i.e. avoid the 'all tex files look the same' problem)
- also: most examples in manuals are typeset using

\startbuffer
...
\stopbuffer

\typebuffer \getbuffer

so ... there are no hidden tricks (unless it would bother/confuse 
users); and .. things like cover designs i wanna keep for myself if only 
to avoid cutting and pasting

in due time, probably more sources will go on line, but only when i have 
a system/method of keeping things in sync; i don't like the idea to go 
on-line for each change that i want to make (we only have dsl for half a 
year, before that i had to do all on 64 lines which is no fun)

Hans

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-02 16:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-02 14:57 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-02 15:46 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-02 23:13   ` Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03  6:31     ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-02 16:08 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-03 15:13 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03 17:44 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03  5:05 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-03  6:40 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03  9:56 ` Nikolai Weibull
2004-08-03  3:05 skhilji
2004-08-03  6:38 ` Patrick Gundlach
2004-08-03  7:09 ` Hans Hagen
2004-08-02 19:30 Paulo Ney de Souza
2004-08-02  2:55 skhilji
2004-08-01 22:23 Brooks Moses
2004-08-02  1:57 ` Gary Pajer

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