Up-to-date documentation / tutorials. Where?

Up-to-date documentation / tutorials. Where?

[Gerben Wierda]

Hello community,

I have been (unsuccessfully) hunting for up-to-date tutorials/documentation on ConTeXt/LuaTeX/METAPOST. What I find is sites that for instance end in 2011. documentation that is from 2013, or on Pragme-ADE a show-man.pdf PDF with an overview of documentation that doesn’t open any underlying document.

Is there not a simple place to get all the up-to-date documentation?

G
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Re: Up-to-date documentation / tutorials. Where?

[TeXnician]

Hi,

> Is there not a simple place to get all the up-to-date documentation?

maybe not what you are looking for, but I think the list at
https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/448812/the-definitive-guide-to-context-mkiv-documentation
is very helpful.
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Re: Up-to-date documentation / tutorials. Where?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

On Sat, 29 Feb 2020 12:10:13 +0100
Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> wrote:

> Hello community,
> 
> I have been (unsuccessfully) hunting for up-to-date tutorials/documentation on ConTeXt/LuaTeX/METAPOST. What I find is sites that for instance end in 2011. documentation that is from 2013, or on Pragme-ADE a show-man.pdf PDF with an overview of documentation that doesn’t open any underlying document.
> 
> Is there not a simple place to get all the up-to-date documentation?

Take a look into the documentation folder [1] of your ConTeXt installation.

A few of the documents mentions ConTeXt related extension to MetaPost
but the basics haven't changed and the old tutorials work. 

[1] $TEXMF/tex/texmf-context/doc/context/documents/general/manuals

List of all documents in the directory above:

about.pdf
bidi.pdf
charts-mkiv.pdf
cld-mkiv.pdf
colors-mkiv.pdf
columnsets.pdf
details.pdf
ecmascript-mkiv.pdf
epub-mkiv-demo.epub
epub-mkiv-demo.pdf
epub-mkiv.pdf
evenmore.pdf
followingup.pdf
fonts-mkiv.pdf
graphics.pdf
hybrid.pdf
interaction.pdf
languages-mkiv.pdf
libraries-mkiv.pdf
lowlevel-boxes.pdf
lowlevel-conditionals.pdf
lowlevel-expansion.pdf
lowlevel-registers.pdf
lua-mkiv.pdf
luametafun.pdf
luametatex.pdf
luatex.pdf
ma-cb-en.pdf
math-mkiv.pdf
metafun-p.pdf
metafun-s.pdf
mk.pdf
mkiv-publications.pdf
mmlexamp.pdf
mmlprime.pdf
mreadme.pdf
musings.pdf
nodes.pdf
notnow.pdf
onandon.pdf
pagecolumns.pdf
rules-mkiv.pdf
spacing-mkiv.pdf
spreadsheets-mkiv.pdf
sql-mkiv.pdf
steps-mkiv.pdf
still.pdf
svg-lmtx.pdf
swiglib-mkiv.pdf
templates-mkiv.pdf
texit.pdf
tiptrick.pdf
tools-mkiv.pdf
units-mkiv.pdf
workflows-mkiv.pdf
xml-mkiv.pdf
xtables-mkiv.pdf

Wolfgang
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Re: Up-to-date documentation / tutorials. Where?

[mf]

> 
> Is there not a simple place to get all the up-to-date documentation?
> 

If you install ConTeXt from

http://www.pragma-ade.nl/install.htm

in the installation tree you'll find docs under

tex/texmf-context/doc/context/documents/

There you'll always find the docs at their last revision.

Massi
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How do I tell mtxrun not to open the pdf or to open it differently?

[Gerben Wierda]

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Thanks. Found those.

I am looking how to tell mtxrun not to open some WINE-based Windows PDF previewer but something else.

Using —autopdf it now ends with 

mtx-context     | pdfview methods: auto default okular pdfxcview sumatra, current method: sumatra (directives_pdfview_method)
pdfview         | command: wine "sumatrapdf.exe" -reuse-instance -bg-color 0xCCCCCC "test.pdf" 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null &
mtx-context     | pdfview overhead: 0.003 seconds

But I don’t use that and the man page for mtxrun doesn’t help me (besides, the man page I get is from MacTeX/TeXLive and probably not form the latest standalone ConTeXt.

mtxrun —help doesn’t help either.

So, where do I find it? There is no mtxrun.pdf manual.

(I am getting a real deja-vu on the state of ConTeXt documentation, it’s probably there these days but it is ‘unfindable’ and seems incomplete. E.g. install.sh shows a flag —autopdf for mtxrun (probably the first time you get an instruction on the use f mtxrun) which is then not mentioned in mtxrun —help or mentioned in the man page (in MacTeX). Wiki seems to end in 2011. Etc. This kind of experience is (again) very frustrating, I must say. It is my main stumbling block for actually using ConTeXt)

G


> On 29 Feb 2020, at 12:35, mf <massifr@fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> 
> Il 29/02/20 12:10, Gerben Wierda ha scritto:
>> Is there not a simple place to get all the up-to-date documentation?
> 
> If you install ConTeXt from
> 
> http://www.pragma-ade.nl/install.htm
> 
> in the installation tree you'll find docs under
> 
> tex/texmf-context/doc/context/documents/
> 
> There you'll always find the docs at their last revision.
> 
> Massi


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