Re: Story of a newbie looking for a table

[Wolfgang Zillig <wolfgang.zillig@student.kuleuven.be>]

Hello,

what you can do is: get a local copy of all manuals and then there is a 
small program available called docsearcher (is written in java, so it 
should run on all platforms) 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/  I don't use it on the 
manuals, because after some time you know which one could contain a 
solution for your problem. But it is nice when you have a lot of 
literature in pdf format.

It is also also a nice solution to use googles advanced search options, 
where you can limit the search on a specified location.

Wolfgang

Jérôme Laurens schrieb:

> Hi (bis)
>
> I'd like to share my newbie experience about tables.
>
> With iPages, the ''fabulous, marvelous, amazing, simple" word 
> processor from apple,
> It took me more or less half an hour to design and fill a table, with 
> fixed width colored cells and so on.
> Unfortunately, once I saved the document, iPages could no longer open 
> it anymore... :-(
> I then spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour) to try to 
> repair things... with no success.
>
> With ConTeXt, I spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour) 
> trying to design my table, and less than half an hour to fill it.
> Now the work is complete. :-)
>
> But I am not really satisfied, I feel frustrated because I have the 
> impression that it took me too much time.
> It appears that neither texshow nor garden did help me. So I digged 
> into standard Google, and it pointed me to the context mailing list 
> archive, finally pointing me to the name of the right manual at pragma 
> ADE. Fortunately, this up-to-date manual was online .
>
> Once, my work was complete, I understood that the Google search on 
> context garden wiki was limited to context garden...
> I then found that some information I was missing about tables was on 
> the context garden tabulate page...:-/
> But I have the impression that the manuals do contain much more than 
> available on contextgarden.
>
> So, is it possible to have the Google search engine at context garden 
> also look into the manuals?
>
> Moreover, how do you formulate a request in standard google? Adding 
> the "ConTeXt" key word does not lead to accurate results.
>
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