Re: The ConTeXt Companion

[Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it>]

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>
> With ConTeXt there is, of course, the "excursion" (equiv. to (1)) and
> the manual (2), but many important issues (the phantastic XML  
> processing
> capabilities, bibliography stuff, typography, font management,...) are
> not quite complete or covered elsewhere (i.e. situation 3).

I totally agree. There are of course documents about the last topics  
you mention (not to talk about the mailing list, of course),
  but they seems to need a more general introduction,  at least for  
me. I'd like to have a book
covering all the aspects so that you a conceptual frame which unifies  
the whole stuff. Then, you can procede by yourself in
a more organized way.

By the way, a similar issue has been raised about SuperCollider,  
which in my esperience is similar for documentation to ConTeXt.
Many deep documents, a huge work by the developers, some good intro/ 
tutorial, but no a complete book.
The situation has now evolved in a project about a SC book which has  
been submitted to MIT Press.

In any case, I cannot understand how people can go back to LaTeX, I  
mean from a user's perpsective. I'm a total ConTeXt ignorant but,  
just using setups, I've created A1 musical scores involving metapost  
and importing external files, A0 academic posters using layers so  
much better then powerpoint, an on-going book full of syntax  
colorized code...I just wouldn't started with LaTeX :-)


Best

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I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who  
doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this  
guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with  
me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss  
Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information.
(Annabel Chong)





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