From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15493 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Patrick Gundlach" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt-Wiki Date: 22 Jun 2004 17:55:24 +0200 Organization: chaos Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <6.1.1.1.2.20040601200608.01eb9640@server-1> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1087919911 29589 80.91.224.253 (22 Jun 2004 15:58:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 15:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Jun 22 17:58:20 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bcnf9-0001nm-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:58:19 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B43DB10B89; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:58:15 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from lilly.ping.de (lilly.ping.de [83.97.42.2]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2018F10B85 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:55:21 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: (qmail 13829 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2004 15:55:03 -0000 Original-Received: (ofmipd 83.97.40.163); 22 Jun 2004 15:54:41 -0000 Original-Received: from schnee.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by schnee.local (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i5MFtPeu003079 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:55:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (from pg@localhost) by schnee.local (8.12.9/8.12.2/Submit) id i5MFtPTT003078; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:55:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Authentication-Warning: schnee.local: pg set sender to patrick@gundla.ch using -f X-Lieblings-Musik: the_capricorns In-Reply-To: (Holger =?iso-8859-1?q?Sch=F6ner's?= message of "Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:39:15 +0200 (CEST)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15493 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15493 Hello Holger, >> >> [starting ConTeXt wiki at] http://members.ping.de:8062/ >> What kind of example documents do you think of? I guess that you know >> that the magazines on the main ConTeXt site have their source code >> included? > I was thinking of all kinds of day-to-day documents, like the letter > template I mentioned. I could not find one according to DIN-standards, so I > did some trial-and-error experiments and created my own. What were the difficulties you ran into? > Arguments for a collection could be: > > 1) Perhaps a comprehensive and classified collection of sample documents > could spare others such time consuming trials. a) it is impossible to have a comprehensive collection of documents. There are too many faces ConTeXt has. b) It is hard to classify the documents. Two possibilities: 1) layout trickery macro hacking itemize weirdness crazy table fun or 2) letters articles poems magazines/newspaper Any other? Which one makes sense? > 2) On the other hand, my template could for sure be further improved (beyond > the level, I am capable of), so by putting it on a WIKI, I may get hints > and feedback by others. Yes, that would be a great thing. This is actually the reason why I started this wiki (and texshow-web). > What was your motivation for mentioning such a collection on the WIKI? Every 4 months this question arises on this mailinglist. (Not really true). > Another advantage of the WIKI would be the following: I am often lost, when > I try to remember, where I found a certain hint/trick/technique I am > remembering. If there is a place where everyone can edit pages and include > hints or links to information, then there would be no need to create more > and more separate web sites about ConTeXt, because the content could be > placed in the WIKI, or it could at least be linked from there. And (the best part!) there is a search field in the wiki. So if you have important information there, get it in a few seconds. But it is up to every user to add things to the wiki. Patrick