From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32365 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Manual (English) Update soon? Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:04:20 +0100 Message-ID: <6faad9f00612291904i5b408ff9kea3922685e1cac@mail.gmail.com> References: <9D262742-4464-4342-8EA8-EA01AAC9A344@mac.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167447925 30526 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 03:05:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 03:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 30 04:05:13 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H0UX0-00048m-PP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:05:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA3E1FDFC; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:02:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24243-04; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:02:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D9141FD30; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:02:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC2031FD2A for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:02:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23848-05 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:02:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A80D1FA5A for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:02:14 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l37so5338308nfc for ; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:04:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.48.1 with SMTP id v1mr19549707nfv.1167447860120; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:04:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.48.209.2 with HTTP; Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:04:20 -0800 (PST) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <9D262742-4464-4342-8EA8-EA01AAC9A344@mac.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32365 Archived-At: On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: > On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: > >> cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > > > That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most > > of the basic features. The features that are not in the manual are > > mostly related to specific needs, so you can get around even if you do > > not know about them. Some My Ways discuss some of these undocumented > > features. > > The undocumented features are documented in My Ways? :-) Esp. the two MyWay's written by the author who mentioned that ;) If you write a lot of maths, it's worth reading them. plain TeX math is still valid, but there were some additions which can simplify writing and enumerating your exotic formulas. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/My_Way Most other MyWay's deal with fonts. > I found a few of those also, and it is very confusing to a newbie > (such as myself) to figure out what is old and valid and what is old > and not-so-valid... I don't have a good overview, but I don't know that many "not-so-valid" things. Most "drastic" differences might have been made in the area of fonts (and things will probably have to be improved further once there will be native OpenType support available), textext should better be replaced with \sometxt{} in metapost graphics and you're discouraged to use the Dutch interface for low-level commands ;) I don't remember much more than that. There have been drastic improvements behind the scenes, but that should go unnoticed to the user (except for noting that ConTeXt now runs much faster than three years ago). Old things are still valid, there might only be some new things that you might not know about once you've read the manual. (plain) TeX is about 25 and still "valid". Only that there are "a few commands available out there" which can simplify things. Mojca