From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6383 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nigel King Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: docs for beginners Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:28:31 +0000 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <3C2361A4.3E08D2A5@salamander.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035396911 10134 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:15:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: Bill McClain , In-Reply-To: <3C2361A4.3E08D2A5@salamander.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6383 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6383 I have also been trying to find the right manuals to read:- MS-CB-EN.PDF "ConTeXt an excursion" has some useful things in it bibmod.pdf has the commands for bibliography but I have not used it yet 1998-001.pdf "Context up to date 1998/1" has some commands in it! up-008-s.pdf "Automatic Tables" have some table commands that I haven't yet used Drawings need at least:- metafun-p.pdf "metafun" an excellent manual on the drawing extension commands by Hans Hagen Metapost manual "A User's Manual for MetaPost" is also good Fonts:- mfonts.pdf mtexfont.pdf I also do not know whether I have seen all that there is. > I am a beginner in the TeX and ConTeXt world, and am of course dazed and > confused. Before asking questions, I wanted to make sure I have all the > docs in English that I should. > > My initial installation was from SuSE 7.2; since then I have downloaded > newer versions (including a recent beta) from www.ntg.nl/context/. > > Here are the docs I most often refer to: > > ConTeXt the manual, January 27, 2000 (cont-enp.pdf) > Getting Started with ConTeXt (no date, old commands?) > (context-getting-started.pdf) > Fonts in ConTeXt, April 2001 (mfonts-beta.pdf) > > Plus, the texshow application. (Giuseppe Bilotta mentioned this on > comp.text.tex, else I wouldn't have known about it). > > Am I missing anything essential for a beginner? I am getting good > results so far, but I want to use the system properly and make life easy > for myself. > > My first project is the prepress work for a collection of short stories > first published in 1895. Text only, pretty simple layout. I like > Computer Modern Roman, but may have to find a different outline font > more appropriate to the subject matter. > > Thanks to all... > > -Bill thanks -- Nigel