From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32373 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Douglas Philips Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Manual (English) Update soon? Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 04:40:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167471671 6175 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 09:41:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:41:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 30 10:41:10 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 1H0aiA-0007yr-6M for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:41:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B89C62000F; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:38:53 +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 11546-04; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:38:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CC120006; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:38:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 871472000F for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:38:42 +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 11904-04 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:38:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.178]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id BD73320005 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:38:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout08/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kBU9ejII004862 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:40:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.102] (15.pins2.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.172.144]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kBU9ebEe025764 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:40:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=4.65.5446:2.3.11, 1.2.37, 4.0.164 definitions=2006-12-30_01:2006-12-29, 2006-12-29, 2006-12-30 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=3.1.0-0612050001 definitions=main-0612300001 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:32373 Archived-At: On 2006 Dec 30, at 12:47 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan indited: >> So, I've been contemplating whether I should move "up" the >> abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or "down" to plain TeX and really >> learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) > > I wrote my dissertation using plain TeX plus eplain, > ... > I got tired of maintaining and improving the macro hackery, so I > decided to leap over LaTeX to ConTeXt. Yes, that is an issue. As was pointed out earlier in this thread, 'packages' tend to lose support once they're released, so ConTeXt at least has a coherent architecture which, gathering from what I've read on this list, counteracts that. > Here is a hello-world template that I just wrote. It contains many of > the ConTeXt commands that I use most frequently. Cool, thank you! Another sunday after noon (as in 18 hours from now) project! --Doug