[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

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SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 12.02.2024 um 08:49:
> Greetings all. I have a passion for typesetting. I found that 
> currently the best typesetting systems are those that are based on 
> TeX. Of them, there are LaTeX, and ConTeXt.
> LaTeX is very well documented and popular; ConTeXt, on the other hand, 
> is apparently very powerful and capable, but is not as well documented.
>
> There are things that are spectacularly well documented, others that 
> only show hints, and leave it up to the user to figure things out on 
> their own, and others still that won't even compile on a more recent 
> version of ConTeXt (apparently the proper way to access a counter's 
> value in ConTeXt is to use \getnumber or \convertednumber, and not 
> \getcounter. That's just an example).

This is wrong, the counter commands are official and the number variants 
are kept for backwards compatibility with old styles.

Wolfgang


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