From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20913 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "luigi.scarso" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:02:37 +0200 Message-ID: <42B2BBDD.1090008@logosrl.it> References: <000c01c57321$d95ad1d0$bb1c8453@CasaAlex> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1119009503 11988 80.91.229.2 (17 Jun 2005 11:58:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 17 13:58:12 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DjFTT-0000Of-RS for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 13:57:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 033F212831; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:02:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29248-04; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:02:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2E01280F; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:02:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D534A1280F for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29247-06-2 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:02:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ServerNotes.logosrl.it (unknown [81.208.99.91]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B71127A1 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:02:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.2.85] ([192.168.2.85]) by ServerNotes.logosrl.it (Lotus Domino Release 6.5.1) with ESMTP id 2005061714004402-11097 ; Fri, 17 Jun 2005 14:00:44 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <000c01c57321$d95ad1d0$bb1c8453@CasaAlex> X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on ServerNotes/Logo(Release 6.5.1|January 21, 2004) at 17/06/2005 14.00.44, Serialize by Router on ServerNotes/Logo(Release 6.5.1|January 21, 2004) at 17/06/2005 14.00.45, Serialize complete at 17/06/2005 14.00.45 X-Virus-Scanned: 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: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20913 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20913 Alexandra Ribeiro wrote: >Hi, > >I need some advices/guidelines before start writing my PhD thesis. > > > >I'm completely new to TeX and of course to Context but I'm convinced that Microsoft Word is far away from being the right tool for writing a long document. Well, in the past I had some big big headaches. > > Here some useful pdfs : 1. mp-cb-en.pdf: a first guide to commands; 2. cont-enp.pdf: The manual; 3. metafun-p.pdf: a beautiful book on graphics. * mtexexec.pdf: explain at least how to make pdf from your tex document; * mtexfont.pdf: how to install new fonts; * mtexutil.pdf: sometimes I need it to make some works. You can find them starting from http://mirror.contextgarden.net/document-1.htm luigi