From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24381 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Zillig Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Story of a newbie looking for a table Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:18:52 +0100 Message-ID: <43A2948C.8070706@student.kuleuven.be> References: <34b7b46cfe240c92649b0aa75e3a8783@u-bourgogne.fr> 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: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134728441 6284 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 10:20:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 16 11:20:39 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 1EnCg7-0004g3-NS for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:19:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2121A1281D; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:19:06 +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 21304-01-4; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:19:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0830127F0; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:19:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 541E8127F0 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:19:00 +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 21304-01-3 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:18:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.41]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E051276F for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:18:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C8C4C646 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:18:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp01.kuleuven.be (octavianus.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be [134.58.240.71]) by nibbel.kulnet.kuleuven.ac.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BD384C7EE for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:18:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.33.194.76] (dhcp-194-076.bwk.kuleuven.ac.be [10.33.194.76]) by smtp01.kuleuven.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A7463E23 for ; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 11:18:57 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <34b7b46cfe240c92649b0aa75e3a8783@u-bourgogne.fr> X-Virus-Scanned: by KULeuven Antivirus Cluster 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:24381 Archived-At: Hello, what you can do is: get a local copy of all manuals and then there is a=20 small program available called docsearcher (is written in java, so it=20 should run on all platforms)=20 http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ I don't use it on the=20 manuals, because after some time you know which one could contain a=20 solution for your problem. But it is nice when you have a lot of=20 literature in pdf format. It is also also a nice solution to use googles advanced search options,=20 where you can limit the search on a specified location. Wolfgang J=E9r=F4me Laurens schrieb: > Hi (bis) > > I'd like to share my newbie experience about tables. > > With iPages, the ''fabulous, marvelous, amazing, simple" word=20 > processor from apple, > It took me more or less half an hour to design and fill a table, with=20 > fixed width colored cells and so on. > Unfortunately, once I saved the document, iPages could no longer open=20 > it anymore... :-( > I then spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour) to try to=20 > repair things... with no success. > > With ConTeXt, I spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour)=20 > 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=20 > impression that it took me too much time. > It appears that neither texshow nor garden did help me. So I digged=20 > into standard Google, and it pointed me to the context mailing list=20 > archive, finally pointing me to the name of the right manual at pragma=20 > ADE. Fortunately, this up-to-date manual was online . > > Once, my work was complete, I understood that the Google search on=20 > context garden wiki was limited to context garden... > I then found that some information I was missing about tables was on=20 > the context garden tabulate page...:-/ > But I have the impression that the manuals do contain much more than=20 > available on contextgarden. > > So, is it possible to have the Google search engine at context garden=20 > also look into the manuals? > > Moreover, how do you formulate a request in standard google? Adding=20 > the "ConTeXt" key word does not lead to accurate results. > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >