From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32372 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 04:28:41 -0500 Message-ID: References: <9D262742-4464-4342-8EA8-EA01AAC9A344@mac.com> <6faad9f00612291904i5b408ff9kea3922685e1cac@mail.gmail.com> 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 1167470945 4823 80.91.229.12 (30 Dec 2006 09:29:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 09:29:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 30 10:29:03 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 1H0aWR-0007L3-Hs for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:28:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B5711FF15; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:26:47 +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 11069-09-4; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:26:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11E591FE6A; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:26:41 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF64F1FEE3 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:26:37 +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 11069-09-3 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:26:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.176]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C2CB1FE6A for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:26:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout06/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id kBU9Siss005486 for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:28:44 -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 kBU9SeQu024497 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Sat, 30 Dec 2006 01:28:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00612291904i5b408ff9kea3922685e1cac@mail.gmail.com> 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:32372 Archived-At: On 2006 Dec 29, at 10:04 PM, Mojca Miklavec indited: > On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: >> The undocumented features are documented in My Ways? :-) > > Esp. the two MyWay's written by the author who mentioned that ;) :-) I see you also have one... all of which are next up on my Sunday afternoon reading! > See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/My_Way Thanks! > Most other MyWay's deal with fonts. Arg. My bane. Fonts. The one thing that pulls me ever so slightly to using Pages... Not because I want a garish mix of goofball junk fonts, but because I love Palatino for newletters and Papyrus for cards and short notes... I figured out how to get Palatino into LaTeX, but use other programs (so far) to get Papyrus... >> I found a few of those also, and it is very confusing to a newbie >> (such as myself) to figure out what is old and valid and what is old >> and not-so-valid... > > I don't have a good overview, but I don't know that many > "not-so-valid" things. Thanks, that is good to know... > Old things are still valid, there might only be some new > things that you might not know about once you've read the manual. > (plain) TeX is about 25 and still "valid". Only that there are "a few > commands available out there" which can simplify things. The more I look into it, the more I feel that ConTeXt is going in a direction more helpful to me than LaTeX. No comment intended on the "correctness" of either direction, just on the harmony with where I am going. --Doug