most recent manual

most recent manual

[Chris Lott]

I'm working my way through the ConTeXt manual/reference. I discovered
the draft of a new manual at:
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/manual_being_revised -- is this the
latest available anywhere? I'm finding a lot of things that are out of
date in the new draft (for instance, using \setupnote[footnote]
instead of \setupfootnotes) which generally means doing it wrong,
searching google and the wiki for information, and finding out that
things have changed :) Is this the best way?

c
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Re: most recent manual

[Chris Lott]

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org> wrote:
> I'm working my way through the ConTeXt manual/reference. I discovered
> the draft of a new manual at:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/manual_being_revised -- is this the
> latest available anywhere? I'm finding a lot of things that are out of
> date in the new draft (for instance, using \setupnote[footnote]
> instead of \setupfootnotes) which generally means doing it wrong,
> searching google and the wiki for information, and finding out that
> things have changed :) Is this the best way?

A clarification because a backchannel note made me suspect this
question might be taken the wrong way: it isn't intended to imply a
criticism... I'm just making sure I'm using the most recent resources!

c
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Re: most recent manual

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 03.01.2012 um 04:10 schrieb Chris Lott:

> I'm working my way through the ConTeXt manual/reference. I discovered
> the draft of a new manual at:
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/manual_being_revised -- is this the
> latest available anywhere? I'm finding a lot of things that are out of
> date in the new draft (for instance, using \setupnote[footnote]
> instead of \setupfootnotes) which generally means doing it wrong,
> searching google and the wiki for information, and finding out that
> things have changed :) Is this the best way?

\setupfootnote == \setupnote[footnote]

The second form is the recommended way and commands like \setupfootnote
are there for backward compatibility but for new functions it’s always
\setupXXX[<environment>].

Wolfgang

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Re: most recent manual

[luigi scarso]

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On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 6:10 PM, Chris Lott <chris@chrislott.org> wrote:
> > I'm working my way through the ConTeXt manual/reference. I discovered
> > the draft of a new manual at:
> > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/manual_being_revised -- is this the
> > latest available anywhere? I'm finding a lot of things that are out of
> > date in the new draft (for instance, using \setupnote[footnote]
> > instead of \setupfootnotes) which generally means doing it wrong,
> > searching google and the wiki for information, and finding out that
> > things have changed :) Is this the best way?
>
> A clarification because a backchannel note made me suspect this
> question might be taken the wrong way: it isn't intended to imply a
> criticism... I'm just making sure I'm using the most recent resources!
>
there are the books at
http://www.h2o-books.com/catalog/5
but in the end the most recent resources are (in this order) the mailing
list, the wiki, the pdfs on specific arguments (as that one for xtable) and
the book.
Mkiv is still changing, and  sometime things stop working (mkiv is not
frozen as mkii, so it's better to keep around the last working beta), but
my ten year experience says that the user interface doesn't vary so much
(at least I've not found revolutions on this side);
if you are programming at the macro level the ultimate reference is the
source, which is quite readable --- well, much more than a Latex packages,
but it's my opinion.
And on this side mkiv is, if not a revolution, at least a strong evolution.

-- 
luigi

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Re: most recent manual

[Chris Lott]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> \setupfootnote == \setupnote[footnote]
>
> The second form is the recommended way and commands like \setupfootnote
> are there for backward compatibility but for new functions it’s always
> \setupXXX[<environment>].

Thanks. Perhaps the backward compatibility was eventually removed for
setupfootnote! At any rate, what appears to be a bug reported in my
other message stands since I am pretty sure I am using the latest
syntax.

c
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Re: most recent manual

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 03.01.2012 um 18:40 schrieb Chris Lott:

> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:02 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> \setupfootnote == \setupnote[footnote]
>> 
>> The second form is the recommended way and commands like \setupfootnote
>> are there for backward compatibility but for new functions it’s always
>> \setupXXX[<environment>].
> 
> Thanks. Perhaps the backward compatibility was eventually removed for
> setupfootnote! At any rate, what appears to be a bug reported in my
> other message stands since I am pretty sure I am using the latest
> syntax.

\setupfootnotes can be also used with the mkiv beta but try to use \setupnote.

Wolfgang
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