From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15908 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Patrick Gundlach" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation? Date: 3 Aug 2004 08:38:13 +0200 Organization: chaos Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <2b57b42ba17d.2ba17d2b57b4@tampabay.rr.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091515107 23778 80.91.224.253 (3 Aug 2004 06:38:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 06:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 03 08:38:23 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BrswJ-00026B-00 for ; Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:38:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0F3127A7; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23593-09-2; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B95A412789; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5F0B12789 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 23593-09 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lilly.ping.de (unknown [83.97.42.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CBC112772 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 4369 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2004 06:38:19 -0000 Original-Received: (ofmipd 83.97.40.227); 3 Aug 2004 06:37:57 -0000 Original-Received: from schnee.local. (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by schnee.local (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i736cJZ5000149 for ; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (from pg@localhost) by schnee.local. (8.12.9/8.12.2/Submit) id i736cGiB000148; Tue, 3 Aug 2004 08:38:16 +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: <2b57b42ba17d.2ba17d2b57b4@tampabay.rr.com> (skhilji@tampabay.rr.com's message of "Mon, 02 Aug 2004 23:05:09 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15908 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15908 Hello Salman, > The problem with "normal > users" cooking up new styles is the lack of artistic abilities in > some people (like me). But you will never gain artistic abilities by simple copy/paste. > One can, obviously go thru the manual cover the cover, but if one > does not have creative thinking, then creating professional looking > styles would be hard. That is why, users like me really do not care > if our documents look like everybody else's (just as long as they > look professional). The ability to know how to program/use a text editor/use photoshop can only help you with the technical difficulties in making a professional cover and style. Not more. > And of course, once we learn the tool, then making small changes >here and there to make it look slightly different is no big deal. Each LaTeX document looks slighlty different. But overall they are extremely easy to classify as a LaTeX document. And why? The distances and parameters are all given so it looks "right" and there is no reason to change them. Patrick -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net List archive: http://archive.contextgarden.net