From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6381 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: docs for beginners Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:27:09 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20011221182257.02f231a0@server-1> References: <3C2361A4.3E08D2A5@salamander.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396908 10071 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:15:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:15:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "ntg-context@ntg.nl" Original-To: Bill McClain In-Reply-To: <3C2361A4.3E08D2A5@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6381 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6381 At 10:21 AM 12/21/2001 -0600, Bill McClain wrote: >I am a beginner in the TeX and ConTeXt world, and am of course dazed and >confused. Before asking questions, I wanted to make sure I have all the >docs in English that I should. > >My initial installation was from SuSE 7.2; since then I have downloaded >newer versions (including a recent beta) from www.ntg.nl/context/. i'm not sure if that server is already in sync with www.pragma-pod.nl (will be www.pragma-ade.com again soon) >Here are the docs I most often refer to: > >ConTeXt the manual, January 27, 2000 (cont-enp.pdf) >Getting Started with ConTeXt (no date, old commands?) >(context-getting-started.pdf) >Fonts in ConTeXt, April 2001 (mfonts-beta.pdf) if you want a complete overview, goto the site, and follow the big picture link, click on the link to the pdf document, then you get 'showcase.pdf' which links to 'show-man.pdf', which mentions many of the manuals manuals (more to come). >Am I missing anything essential for a beginner? I am getting good >results so far, but I want to use the system properly and make life easy >for myself. looks likes you have neough to start (you may like the metafun manual); a good point for picking some details are the s-*.tex files (also described in show-pre.pdf as accessible from the showcase). >My first project is the prepress work for a collection of short stories >first published in 1895. Text only, pretty simple layout. I like >Computer Modern Roman, but may have to find a different outline font >more appropriate to the subject matter. \setuptypescript[palatino][texnansi] \setupbodyfont[palatino,10pt] may work in your version. Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------