From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24361 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The speed of development? Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:21:51 +0100 Message-ID: <43A09AFF.9060104@wxs.nl> References: <86wti7l5ro.fsf@gmail.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: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134599107 26512 80.91.229.2 (14 Dec 2005 22:25:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:25:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Dec 14 23:25:06 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 1Emf0c-0007cy-88 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:22:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0582712806; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:22:02 +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 02520-04-3; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:21:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 318DF127E9; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:21:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE4A0127E9 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:21:57 +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 02520-04-2 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:21:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3C2C127E7 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:21:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 7745 for ; Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:28:36 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <86wti7l5ro.fsf@gmail.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:24361 Archived-At: leon wrote: >Hi guys, > >I'm starting to use conTeXt. And thanks for all those people encourage >me in my last email. > >I read in various places that the pace of development is fast. I don't >get a clue of what that means. As far as I know LaTeX hasn't been >updated for over 3 years. So how fast is conTeXt being developed? The >conTeXt manual dated 2001 since pretty old to me. Am I right? > > sure, but it's only one of the many manuals ... more detailed manuals came later; see website for more details (the texbook is older -) concerning development ... it's driven by what we need here, by what users demand, and what is fun to implement Hans