Am 27.04.2016 um 17:10 schrieb Hans Hagen:
indeed they are lots of small examples (taken from the
list or experiments) but they show what can be done
if they crash (no sure what you mean there) it's most likely due
to fonts you don't have on your machine
Yes, many of the blank pages or obscure (to me) error messages seem
to be font-related. I'll have to see to that.
a lot has been published in articles in user group
journals or for meetings, there is a font manual that you can buy
for nominal costs, there are some manuals on the website and an
extended version of the more technical one that hardly anyone
needs will end up in the distribution some day soon, there are
examples on stack exchange, in the mail archive an don the wiki
... a lot of this depends on voluntary work so you can hardly
complain about it .. anyone is free to provide more documentation
and share experiences
Yes, I know, I'm sorry I let my exasperation run free. When I
started out with LaTeX and typesetting more than two decades
ago, I had one basic book on LaTeX. Over the years my knowledge of
LaTeX, typography, layout design and typesetting grew side by side,
if somewhat organically and unsystematic. Nowadays there's about a
metre and a half of bookshelf occupied by books on LaTeX, TeX and
Typography.
As I make books myself, I'm obviously not averse to buying them. I
guess the ConTeXt books on fonts and layout will do me good.
btw, if you want to roll out your own features as in
extensions-001 then you also need to know what the font provides
(or lacks) .. open type fonts can be pretty complex and there is
no consistency in how certain features are implemented
Yes, I learned that already. Will these home-made features only work
on open type fonts?
Cheers -- Thomas