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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: announcement and call
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 20:06:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52851F1D.9060503@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5284D95B.1070602@uni-bonn.de>

On 11/14/2013 03:08 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> today, I have an announcement to make and a call for contributions. We 
> have obtained a medium-sized grant at my university to further 
> development of ConTeXt. Specifically, our project wants to facilitate 
> typesetting critical editions after the TEI xml standard and 
> bibliographical data. Luigi will be employed as a full-time developer 
> for the next 6 months (he signed his contract today); Hans will 
> coordinate the work flow.

Thomas,

congratulations for the excellent news.

> So this is good news. Now for the call for contributions: we invite you 
> to send in examples in those two areas (critical editions, i.e. 
> linenotes cum suis, and bibliographical data, aka bib-module) which show 
> where ConTeXt could be developed. So please send examples to the list 
> that show limitations or bugs, ask for new features, etc. If you want 
> new features in the bibliography department, please do not send vague 
> requests ("it would be nice if we could have hungarian reference 
> systems") but small examples which show a precise feature and a possible 
> syntax for it.

Are the requests to be addressed to this mailing list? Or do you plan
something like a GitHub repository?

> Of course, I can't promise that we will be able to act on all your 
> submissions, but I'm optimistic that this project will make our favorite 
> software better!

Many thanks for this project, because it benefits us all.

All best,


Pablo
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http://www.ousia.tk
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-14 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14 14:08 Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-11-14 19:06 ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]
2013-11-14 20:23   ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-14 20:30   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-11-14 20:40 ` Philipp Gesang
2013-11-14 20:47   ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-14 20:56     ` Philipp Gesang
2013-11-14 20:55   ` Thomas A. Schmitz
2013-11-15 10:31     ` Keith J. Schultz
2013-11-15 12:06       ` Hans Hagen
2013-11-16 15:49         ` Keith J. Schultz

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