From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23628 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tobias Burnus Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: beginners manual Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:51:10 +0100 Message-ID: <438384BE.4080603@net-b.de> References: <43824445.4000905@wxs.nl> <4383725A.1010309@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132692703 24914 80.91.229.2 (22 Nov 2005 20:51:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:51:43 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Nov 22 21:51:33 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 1Eef6z-0005rw-LM for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:51:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 481E7127E5; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:51:33 +0100 (CET) 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 23240-01; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:51:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B144127DD; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:49:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14029127DD for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:49:46 +0100 (CET) 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 22936-06 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:49:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de (zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de [160.45.35.155]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F712127D7 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:49:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ith.physik.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.32.115] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by zs04.physik.fu-berlin.de with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Eef5E-0003mO-Lb; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:49:44 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050715) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4383725A.1010309@elvenkind.com> X-Scanned: No viruses found. X-Scan-Signature: cad7a62fb64f3ea5765c1cb687ca7e0a 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23628 Archived-At: Hi, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > special characters: explain e.g. \{ and \[ (3) That brings me to a thing I miss a lot. My LaTeX book had in the end a=20 few pages with special characters, which is the main reason I still look = in it. I'd like to see - preferably at the last pages of the manual so one=20 finds them quickly in the printed version: - somewhere: -, --, ---, |-| etc. - somewhere: \/ (German example: Auf\/lage) to prevent the ligature - \dots - How to enter: $ & % # { } \ (esp. the "\") - text mode accents \'o \type{\'o} (maybe mention \oaccute as well?) \SS\ \type{\SS} and text mode symbols \copyright, \S, ... - mention that for different languages some additional methods exists=20 (e.g. de "u -> =C3=BC, "s -> =C3=9F; or for Greek; or ...) - mathematical input Math accents Greek Symbols Maybe also AMS Symbols In short I mean basically the following tables from "\LATEX=20 Kurzbeschreibung" (http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/lshort/german/l2kurz.pdf): - Page 19, Table 4 (accents and special letters) and Table 5 (symbols) - page 32ff, Table 6 (math accents), Table 7 (small Greek letters),=20 Table 8 (capital Greek letters), Table 9 (further symbols), Table 10=20 ("big" operators), Table 11 (binary operators), Table 12 (relations),=20 Table 13 (negated relations), Table 14 (arrows) and Table 15 (braces) Tobias