From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/45028 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: PhD Thesis in ConTeXt Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:54:18 +0100 Message-ID: <871vy7weed.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> References: <48FEEEAA.2836.003C.0@eumetsat.int> <200810222252.38277.alan.braslau@cea.fr> <49008C23.2000803@elvenkind.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: ger.gmane.org 1224773977 25661 80.91.229.12 (23 Oct 2008 14:59:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 14:59:37 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Oct 23 17:00:29 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Kt1fg-0000Pw-Pq for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:00:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCE91FDEB; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:59:13 +0200 (CEST) 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 24015-07; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:59:08 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3075E1FC36; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:55:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094891FC36 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:55:28 +0200 (CEST) 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 22490-04-3 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:54:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cordelia.devereux.me.uk (devereux.me.uk [217.169.15.178]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401841FB98 for ; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 16:54:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [217.169.15.178] (helo=cordelia.devereux.me.uk ident=jd) by cordelia.devereux.me.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kt1Zq-0002n1-V0 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:54:19 +0100 In-Reply-To: <49008C23.2000803@elvenkind.com> (Taco Hoekwater's message of "Thu\, 23 Oct 2008 16\:37\:23 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:45028 Archived-At: Taco Hoekwater writes: > Hi, > > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Alan BRASLAU wrote: >> >>> My question to the mailing list: is this task structured? Is this being >>> managed by anyone? >> >> Unfortunately, not. > > Aditya's reply sums it up pretty well. I just want to add a quick note. > > After at least half a dozen reiterations of this discussion (and it > is indeed always exactly the same discussion), I have now reached the > point where I no longer feel the slightest need to take any action any > more. From where I stand, it seems that the unhappy people just want > to complain about, but are not willing to help improve the existing > documentation, and that the happy people just want to post pointers > but fail to see a real need to improve anything. > > I myself would be much more willing to spend time on (managing|writing) > the manual if there were any people showing an active interest in it. I myself am very interested in *reading* it - I was delighted to see the new fonts chapter and the new documention project in general. But I am not sure I can contribute much. I am much more of a "consumer" than a "producer", of accurate information. Partly due to lack of time, but also lack of knowledge :) -- John Devereux ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________