[NTG-context] Re: As a person with very basic LaTeX skills, no experience with programming languages and an interest in LMTX (I have been coding extremely basic LMTX), how do I properly learn LMTX as a beginner to any coded language?

[Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>]

On 9/24/2024 9:14 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> There are some introductions linked in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ 
> Documentation
> 
> Manuals written for MkIV still apply to LMTX, even if there are 
> sometimes better alternatives to some constructs.
> 
> I don’t think plain TeX literature like Knuth’s TeXbook or Eikhout’s TeX 
> by topic makes sense for a beginner, depending on what you want to do.

Well, but one gets the idea by looking at it.

> It makes no sense to try to learn ConTeXt on the dry; choose a project 
> and overcome its problems one after the other. If you don’t have an 
> application for TeX, you don’t need to learn it. What do you want to 
> achieve?

https://github.com/contextgarden/not-so-short-introduction-to-context

and Hrabans upcoming book (finished when we stop adding functionality)

There is also Mikaels stepwise tutorial.

Hans

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