From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48459 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Is there anything like developer's manual for ConTeXt? Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:09 +0100 Message-ID: <49BF5C49.2050707@elvenkind.com> References: <49BF0323.90807@gmail.com> <49BF0C12.90707@studiochango.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 1237277819 8902 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2009 08:16:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:16:59 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Mar 17 09:18:16 2009 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 1LjUV5-0004gJ-TM for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:18:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E0A61FCDD; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:51 +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 22613-01; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784041FC11; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 710E61FC11 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:18 +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 19461-02-3 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (filter1-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.152]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBCAA1FB5B for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by filter1-nij.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n2H8G9ev027704 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:10 +0100 Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CA6E80416EE for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:16:09 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081120) In-Reply-To: <49BF0C12.90707@studiochango.com> X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=82.95.203.226; country=NL; region=11; city=Rotterdam; latitude=51.9167; longitude=4.5000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.9167,4.5000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 194644969 - 2e080885b9dc X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.152 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:48459 Archived-At: Corin Royal Drummond wrote: > Many have voiced the same complaint. I understand that Hans and every > one are occupied with building MKIV (aka LuaTeX), and that documentation > is not their highest priority. There's the wiki, the wonderfully active > mailing list, and what used to be decent docs from 2001/2002 timeframe. > But yes, it's a steep hill to climb, made worth it only by the relative > awesomeness of ConTeXt. You missed the reference manual rewrite effort (which is now in remission mostly because of an extremely depressing lack of user feedback). http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page#Documentation Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________