Re: The ConTeXt book

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

On 3-4-2010 12:54, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> Michael Saunders wrote:
>
>> Mojca's point, that Context is commercial, may be the key:  it can be
>> free in name only but if the means of using it are kept secret, it's
>> only of benefit to Pragma.  (Hans himself mentioned earlier that there
>> are many undocumented options for use in-house only that outsiders see
>> in the code and wonder about.)
>
> If you spend some time on the mailing list your probably make the contrary
> observation. There are countless cases where Hans, Taco or Wolfgang
> implement some features to fulfill a request of a user. Nearly every time I
> had a question/problem, a solution came up within _hours_. That's quite
> impressive imho.
> That also means that many solutions can be found by searching the mailing
> list archives ... not few things are also mentioned in the Wiki. And for the
> very basic problems, the "old" manuals still mostly apply.
>
> I do think that it would be pretty awesome to have a central up-to-date
> documentation which I could also recommend to other people I try to convince
> to use ConTeXt instead of Word, Writer or LaTeX. But at least for my
> personal needs I find answers to most of my questions already.

it could be a user effort to document the new stuff posted on the list

Hans

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