From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42791 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: cont-enp.pdf on lulu Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:20:36 +0200 Message-ID: <488DD5B4.5020205@wxs.nl> References: <200807212037.06180.john@wexfordpress.com> <5D9E79AF-5662-493B-B1E5-8086D472FCF0@rna.nl> <20080727124006947755.7b247440@gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217254939 18655 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2008 14:22:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:22:19 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 28 16:23:09 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNTcv-0004kT-6A for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:23:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D54C31FADF; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:22:08 +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 05600-04-16; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:21:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8113B1FDFB; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:21:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42961FD59 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:21:13 +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 06553-05-18 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:20:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 296EC1FADF for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:20:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.9e) with ESMTP id 8003-1840426 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:20:37 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <20080727124006947755.7b247440@gmail.com> X-Originating-IP: 10.100.1.100 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:42791 Archived-At: David wrote: > documentation makes all other bugs insignificant. (In fact, many > apparent bugs turn out to have secret workarounds anyway, and those > would obviously be in the documentation.) this is not entirely true ... there is often more than one way to solve a problem (esp if there is no robust solution possible in tex); if there is no official interface (say method=...], it might be an indication that the solution is suboptimal, even if the finetuning feature is to stay forever > - Documentation *could* be maintained and updated by someone outside of > the small group, *IF* there was a reasonably up-to-date base of correct > and complete documentation for them to start from. Currently, there is > no such thing. there's the matter of what a user expects ... the core of context is rather stable and in that respect the 'old documentation' is still valid i.e. apart from 'new features, which may of interest to only a small group', the date on a manual does not tell much (i run quite some software which rather ancient manuals); for instance ... how many users are really interested in tricky xml support? Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________