From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15898 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation? Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:08:14 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: <410E66EE.10802@wxs.nl> References: <200408021457.i72Ev94B025117@blue1.Math.Berkeley.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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091462915 23640 80.91.224.253 (2 Aug 2004 16:08:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:08:35 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 02 18:08:22 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 1BrfMM-00027b-00 for ; Mon, 02 Aug 2004 18:08:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20CA2127D4; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:21 +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 19754-07; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82481127CB; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0267C127CB for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:17 +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 20036-01-2 for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (unknown [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76137127BE for ; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i72G8C2p001145; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:12 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id C43921A7B1; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 18:08:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.191] (unknown [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C8B17BA1; Mon, 2 Aug 2004 16:08:14 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200408021457.i72Ev94B025117@blue1.Math.Berkeley.EDU> X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.75, clamav-milter version 0.75 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean 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:15898 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15898 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