From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/56716 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Occasional words sticking out from flush-right Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 15:04:41 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <4B8ED8F7.9010209@gmail.com> <20100303215354.GB2029@phare.normalesup.org> <771da05a1003031519w7803d7dcn9cb4c52be548ffec@mail.gmail.com> <771da05a1003031835m721cc2ccqb8832224b09c921@mail.gmail.com> <771da05a1003040625h57b76829r11dea4cb4c800a16@mail.gmail.com> <771da05a1003041144y6fd1f9dboc21cd3debd4a60a5@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267754952 19463 80.91.229.12 (5 Mar 2010 02:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 02:09:12 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Mar 05 03:09:06 2010 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NnMyN-0000XQ-Ph for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:09:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4099DC9C9C; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:04:50 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id u6ddqO6EBi5P; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:04:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5185C9C67; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:04:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9880CC9C67 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:04:45 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 1PhePbIO70k9 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:04:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2365AC9BB3 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2010 21:04:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM [192.168.2.8] (c-76-28-91-31.hsd1.ct.comcast.net [76.28.91.31]) By hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4B901259.1A865.2017 ; Authuser adityam; 4 Mar 2010 15:04:41 EST In-Reply-To: <771da05a1003041144y6fd1f9dboc21cd3debd4a60a5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:56716 Archived-At: On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote: >> I'm not saying that a dcvs is useless for documentation or manuals. >> But without contributors a dcvs can be practically useless, >> and the only contributors for manuals actually are Taco for luatex and >> Hans for Context mkiv. >> >> > Why are they the only contributors? Because no one else (myself included) has actually contributed anything to the documentation Compare http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/contextman/scmsvn/?action=ScmStats vs the number of "developers" http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/contextman/ To be honest, other people have contributed, especially in translations of the documentations, and documenting some exotic features. But most beginner level and user documentation is written by Hans and Taco. In my opinion, it is hard to write coherent documentation in a distrbuted manner (different writing styles, etc.). You are saying that it is just a matter of having the right infrastructure. Judging by the way things have evolved in the past, I am not so sure. If you really want to test how online documentation will work, you can try to convert parts of the beginners document to html. Compare http://foundry.supelec.fr/gf/project/contextman/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=%2Fcontext-beginners%2Fen%2Fma-cb-en-itemizations.tex&view=markup with what you are writing using sphinx. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________