Re: The ConTeXt book

[Graham Douglas <graham.douglas@readytext.co.uk>]

 >This is to inform you that's I've been commissioned by Hans and Taco
 >to work on a manual for ConTeXt, under their supervision, during the
 >next 12 months.  After the recent discussions about documentation on
 >this list, they have agreed that the lack of a complete manual was
 >getting more and more serious, and they have decided to fix this by
 >delegating this task.

This is brilliant news! Perhaps additional funds to support this could
be raised by a Paypal donations account? Or, should the manual be 
"sufficiently stable" at some point to sell hard copies via digital
printing. Sure, we can all print the PDFs but I, for one, am buried
in piles of unwieldy printouts and prefer a proper bound copy, any day.
Printing large ConTeXt docs would be heavy duty work for most
home printers and use lots of ink, so bound hard copies would be quite 
an economic alternative, in my opinion.

Maybe it's my age but I really don't like reading copious amounts of 
documentation on screen, no matter how carefully the PDFs are designed.

A great piece of news indeed.

Warm regards

Graham

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