Re: The speed of development?

[leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

Many thanks, Mojca. It's very informative.

Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> writes:

 | leon wrote:
 | > Hi guys,
 | >
 | > I read in various places that the pace of development is fast. I don't
 | > get a clue of what that means.
 | 
 | See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes.
 | 
 | > As far as I know LaTeX hasn't been
 | > updated for over 3 years. So how fast is conTeXt being developed? The
 | > conTeXt manual dated 2001 since pretty old to me. Am I right?
 | 
 | LaTeX has (almost) nothing to do with ConTeXt, but even LaTeX packages
 | are updated every now and then.
 | 
 | Hans is coding so fast that he doesn't have enough time to document
 | everything ;)
 | Sure, the manual is somehow outdated: many new features are not yet
 | described there (perhaps in some other manual, on wiki, on the mailing
 | list archive, in the source or nowhere yet), but the manual is still
 | very useful - since ConTeXt is backward compatible and the most
 | important functionality was already there at that time, you can safely
 | use it.
 | 
 | Mojca

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