From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/57640 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Graham Douglas Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The ConTeXt book Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:45:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4BB4E9BF.2090304@readytext.co.uk> References: <20100401170822.GF29608@phare.normalesup.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1270147529 15446 80.91.229.12 (1 Apr 2010 18:45:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 18:45:29 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 01 20:45:25 2010 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 1NxPOP-0006zR-Dc for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 20:45:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43AAC9CC9; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:45:24 +0200 (CEST) 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 Vm-Co3epproi; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:45:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DD64C9C93; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:45:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114D3C9C93 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:45:20 +0200 (CEST) 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 pWktqYDfjRB0 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:45:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.8]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9E81C9C7F for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 20:45:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [172.23.170.143] (helo=anti-virus02-10) by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1NxPOH-0007g2-3G for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:45:17 +0100 Original-Received: from cpc3-chap6-0-0-cust87.aztw.cable.virginmedia.com ([92.238.204.88] helo=[127.0.0.1]) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1NxPOG-0005mK-Jp for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:45:16 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (Windows/20100228) In-Reply-To: <20100401170822.GF29608@phare.normalesup.org> 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:57640 Archived-At: >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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________