From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/56734 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Hagmann?= Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: suggestions for context documentation Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:41:01 +0100 Message-ID: <4B9109ED.4020500@unibas.ch> References: <5105F60E-E532-4583-83DF-C8554B5E6950@uni-bonn.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267796503 12565 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2010 13:41:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:41:43 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Mar 05 14:41:35 2010 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnXmQ-000690-P3 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:41:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BB7DC9D36; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:41:19 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 37RDqNEaJGg1; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:41:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C06C9D3A; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:41:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A382C9D1C for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:41:10 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id j02KBz5G10vq for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:41:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2pub.unibas.ch (smtp2pub.unibas.ch [131.152.227.82]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E06AC9D3B for ; Fri, 5 Mar 2010 14:41:02 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,587,1262559600"; d="scan'208";a="51892745" Original-Received: from unknown (HELO bonasa.local) ([131.152.79.98]) by smtp2priv.unibas.ch with ESMTP; 05 Mar 2010 14:41:01 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 In-Reply-To: <5105F60E-E532-4583-83DF-C8554B5E6950@uni-bonn.de> X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:56734 Archived-At: I agree, too. I have praised the "Excursion" before -- an excellent = one-author work -- and if you also consult the "Manual" you can do a = lot. For special questions, there is always Wolfgang ... On 3/5/10 1:50 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > > On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:01 AM, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote: > >> >> > No, not like those. I mean like a real manual. I read the book >> > about Hasselt---a few examples without explanations. >> >> I am absolutely gobsmacked (astounded, astonished) at some of the = >> comments on this and other threads! >> "ConTeXt - an Excursion" and "ConTeXt the Manual" together are = >> wonderful. I still consult them at least once a week >> after 4 year's use. If you actually tried the examples in the former, = >> rather than just reading them, you >> would be an expert user within 2 days! > > Hear hear! I couldn't agree more and am happy that a voice of reason = > appears in this somewhat meandering thread! > >> >> It would be nice to think that the community could construct = >> documentation, but good, coherent documentation >> is much harder to produce than good code! It works for collections of = >> small articles (WikiPedia etc), but >> I've never seen a good book written by a community. > > also +1 Wasn't there this wonderful saying that a camel is a horse = > designed by committee? > > Thomas > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ = > > 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ = > > -- = Prof. J=F6rg Hagmann-Zanolari MD University of Basel Department of Biomedicine Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565 ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________