[NTG-context] correcting Wikipedia

[NTG-context] correcting Wikipedia

[Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context]

Dear list,

just by accident, I discovered that the English Wikipedia had attributed
ConTeXt to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hagen (a German computer
science professor).

I corrected this info and also removed the internal links to that
article that belong to “our” Hans (Hagen).

Just in case the wording may be improved, I wrote (reprashing a previous
sentence and adding two links to pages with photo):

(Prof. Dr.) Hans Hagen is not to be confused with Hans Hagen, the author
of the ConTeXt macro package for the TeX typesetting system.[5]

[5] ConTeXt’s author comes from the Netherlands (he is a digital
typographer, no academic). In any case, German Hans Hagen and Dutch Hans
Hagen are clearly not the same individual.

Many thanks in advance,

Pablo
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[NTG-context] Re: correcting Wikipedia

[Willi Egger]

Hi Pablo,

thanks for making this correction, a pebble to improve Wikipedia…

Willi

> On 25 Jul 2024, at 18:19, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote:
> 
> Dear list,
> 
> just by accident, I discovered that the English Wikipedia had attributed
> ConTeXt to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hagen (a German computer
> science professor).
> 
> I corrected this info and also removed the internal links to that
> article that belong to “our” Hans (Hagen).
> 
> Just in case the wording may be improved, I wrote (reprashing a previous
> sentence and adding two links to pages with photo):
> 
> (Prof. Dr.) Hans Hagen is not to be confused with Hans Hagen, the author
> of the ConTeXt macro package for the TeX typesetting system.[5]
> 
> [5] ConTeXt’s author comes from the Netherlands (he is a digital
> typographer, no academic). In any case, German Hans Hagen and Dutch Hans
> Hagen are clearly not the same individual.
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Pablo
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[NTG-context] Re: correcting Wikipedia

[Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context]

On 7/25/24 21:56, Willi Egger wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
>
> thanks for making this correction, a pebble to improve Wikipedia…

Hi Willi,

I was more interested in not attributing ConTeXt to other person than
fixing Wikipedia as first intention.

That being said, it surprises me that so (relatively) many LaTeX users
know ConTeXt only by name.

Pablo

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[NTG-context] Re: correcting Wikipedia

[Hans Hagen via ntg-context]

On 7/26/2024 3:27 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:
> On 7/25/24 21:56, Willi Egger wrote:
>> Hi Pablo,
>>
>> thanks for making this correction, a pebble to improve Wikipedia…
> 
> Hi Willi,
> 
> I was more interested in not attributing ConTeXt to other person than
> fixing Wikipedia as first intention.
> 
> That being said, it surprises me that so (relatively) many LaTeX users
> know ConTeXt only by name.
That's all relative, isn't it? I know that msword exists and have seen 
it open but would be in trial and error mode as user. I simply never had 
a need for it. And I only used latex for one document decades ago, 
wrapped it into soem macros, and then moved on so basically I only know 
it by name.

That said, one can recognize anything tex by the backslash and curly 
braces (and editors etc highlighting helps). So I can recognize latex 
(with 99% accuracy when no commands similar to context are used) but 
then I'd need to buy and read a couple of few thousand page companions 
to get a moderate complex document done. I'm sure that doesn't surprise 
Willi.

Last context (and bacrhotex) meeting Harald played this 'can you 
recognize this language' game with the audience. One has to be real old 
(or curious and collecting languages) to be among the winners.

It's all about 'need to use something' and the definition of 'knowing'. 
I can recognize a tree but name a few.

Hans

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