web site

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi,

I still have to re-arrange the domain name, but the new site (that is, old 
site with new content) can be reached at:

   ds035.xs4all.nl

it's a dedicated server on a pretty fast backbone. I still have to redo the 
pod.cod sites.

There are new manuals there as well as regenerated versions of older ones. 
We plan to upgrade some of them on a short notice (the beginners one, 
texexec, metafun and the big one). Some of you sent me corrections, which 
are not yet done but will be done.

The qrc's are a mixture of new cover and old content, but the tables will 
be upgraded (new look and feel) too. This process goes hand in hand with 
the xml based interface definitions.

There is also a new context zip. There are new xml things in there but the 
schema's are yet inperfect. Although i still have to move some 
optimizations in the kernel (testing them now) this new version should run 
much faster although it may go unnoticed on small and relatively simple jobs.

I will upload more manuals and goodies later, but it may be worth to follow 
the "big picture" link on the first page. This will bring you to the new 
pdf based navigation shell. The basic documents is:

   showcase.pdf

and the sub documents:

   show-man.pdf  : an overview of all manuals
   show-pre.pdf  : documentation of the presentation styles + examples
   show-dem.pdf  : the demos
   show-pap.pdf  : papers
   show-art.pdf  : articles

I tried to make them nice documents and they also show a couple of metapost 
tricks. Downloading show-pre and show-man make take some time (a couple of 
megs) but is worth doing. Of course this is all "work in progress". [there 
is also a zip with presentation stuff under /zipped/present.zip).

If you save your documentation files in the same structure as the site 
(most manuals are searched under general/manuals) you havea nice interface 
to all context documents.

Later i will try to make a kind of mirror script (maybe in texexec) so that 
documentation can be fetched/updated automatically [too many massive wget 
--mir's will overflow our monthly bandwidth budget -)].

Hans

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