From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31168 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: A new manual Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:09:05 +0800 Message-ID: <452147B1.4080001@gmail.com> References: <200609280920.02364.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159809229 7276 80.91.229.2 (2 Oct 2006 17:13:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:13:49 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 02 19:13:47 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1GURKi-0001ue-1t for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Oct 2006 19:12:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9FF51FE14; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:11:59 +0200 (CEST) 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 18976-02-3; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:11:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 009201FE16; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:11:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9443C1FE17 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:11:47 +0200 (CEST) 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 18939-05-2 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:11:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sunm.shcnc.ac.cn (sunm.shcnc.ac.cn [159.226.128.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 30A3B1FE14 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2006 19:11:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sunm.shcnc.ac.cn (ZKNIC Message Server) with ESMTP id C242E19C003E for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:17:55 +0800 (CST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [202.127.19.74]) by sunm.shcnc.ac.cn (ZKNIC Message Server) with ESMTP id CCF4F19C0025 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:17:54 +0800 (CST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200609280920.02364.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:31168 Archived-At: John R. Culleton wrote: > What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new > features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a > common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features > discussed daily here are not in it. One must chase around the > wiki and the individual manuals like "details", and that is not > satisfactory from the point of view of the new user. Most of us > have memorized the locations of key information but newcomers > have not. > > If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a > lot of customers. Or an abridged version, something like the > 1999 Excursion manual but expanded and updated, would be a > possibility. > > I agree. A better and up-to-date manual will surely help the promotion of ConTeXt, because it make it easier to know it, learn it, use it and fall in love with it, not just for new users, but also for all non-expert people. Regards, xiaojf