From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34264 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: The ConTeXt Companion Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 11:01:12 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <46F27D63-3A0F-44A1-BE96-A7F975C832BD@ensta.fr> <83E3B53E-549B-4ABB-A661-34FBD35C49B4@jhnet.nl> <461F5E11.3070704@web.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1176570098 719 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2007 17:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:01:38 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Apr 14 19:01:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Hclcw-0005a2-Id for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:01:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1609D20043; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:01:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29301-05; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:01:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37AD820034; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:01:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D475020034 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:01:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 29629-04 for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:01:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CE642002E for ; Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:01:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 27530 invoked by uid 1006); 14 Apr 2007 17:01:13 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(0.0/100.0):. Processed in 0.738935 secs); 14 Apr 2007 17:01:13 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.5) by -v with SMTP; 14 Apr 2007 17:01:12 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 27684 invoked from network); 14 Apr 2007 17:01:11 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO walayah-main) (75.104.81.191) by -v with SMTP; 14 Apr 2007 17:01:11 -0000 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.10 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:34264 Archived-At: On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 02:58:11 -0600, Patrick Gundlach wrote: > ... ConTeXt would probably stabilize, which IMHO is not a good thing. > One thing I really love ConTeXt for is the speed new techniques are > adopted (pdf features, luatex,...) One day we might have a ConTeXt > MKII book for those who are afraid of swithing to pdftex2. Hmm, we had this discussion in Epen... I think that enough of the high-level interface is stable enough that a thorough ConTeXt book will be useful, particularly after luaTeX/pdfTeX2. I recall a particular someone at Epen volunteering to set up a working committee on this, even to write the book himself if no one volunteers to help soon... :D :D :D As for MKII/pdfTeX1, it makes no sense making a book for a stalled branch; pdfTeX1 will go the way of the original TeX engine. Who today will write a book for those who only want to use the dvi format? Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/