From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48581 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jesse Alama Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Is there anything like developer's manual for ConTeXt? 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I understand that Hans and every >> one are occupied with building MKIV (aka LuaTeX), and that documentation >> is not their highest priority. There's the wiki, the wonderfully active >> mailing list, and what used to be decent docs from 2001/2002 timeframe. >> But yes, it's a steep hill to climb, made worth it only by the relative >> awesomeness of ConTeXt. > > You missed the reference manual rewrite effort (which is now in > remission mostly because of an extremely depressing lack of user > feedback). > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page#Documentation Could we add that manual to the minimals? 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