From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22254 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mari Voipio Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Toward an errata sheet. Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:41:07 +0300 Message-ID: <43172113.8010206@iki.fi> References: <200509011119.33469.john@wexfordpress.com> 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 1125589640 12519 80.91.229.2 (1 Sep 2005 15:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 15:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 01 17:47:17 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 1EArFl-0007MR-Fo for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D322127D8; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:45:25 +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 15439-01; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:45:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B579127EC; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:41:12 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10B4127EC for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:41:10 +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 15270-03-3 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:41:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.kpatents.com (mail.kpatents.com [195.170.128.67]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id CF568127D8 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:41:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 10251 invoked from network); 1 Sep 2005 15:41:07 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.169?) (192.168.100.169) by mail.kpatents.com with SMTP; 1 Sep 2005 15:41:07 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200509011119.33469.john@wexfordpress.com> 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:22254 Archived-At: John R. Culleton wrote: > Perhaps we all should exchange annotations where there is a typo or > other error we have uncovered. It would be a kind of group errata > sheet. Yes, this would be a very good idea - for example I bumped into the combination 'bug' so long ago that I'd already forgotten about it; but at a time I both knew that it existed and how to fix it, so it's kind of stupid that you had to stumble on the same problem. Here's a stupid one from the big manual in English; doesn't bother me, but would confuse a newcomer (and yes, I checked this one with the online version, it still exists): ------- on p. 241 every single example says \exernalfigure[blaa] instead of \externalfigure ^^^ -------- I think contextgarden/wiki seems like an ideal place where to put these (that way we also avoid duplicates). I'm not very familiar with the system and find it somewhat hard to navigate, but if somebody points me to the correct direction, I'll enter anything I find in the manuals... The beginner's manual has some 'interesting' errors, too, and I assume the Dutch versions have their problems too, so maybe a separate entry/page for each manual and language? Sometimes a simple typo causes lots of frustration, so I'm all for this suggestion! mari (...using ConteXt to write manuals, guaranteed to come with typos, sometimes in awkward places...)