From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34540 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Which manual for basic drawing? Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 14:46:12 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <46373EE1.6050700@internode.on.net> <46382D46.5020300@internode.on.net> 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 1178138792 11851 80.91.229.12 (2 May 2007 20:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 20:46:32 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed May 02 22:46:30 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 1HjLiX-0005oJ-Ix for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2007 22:46:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E101FFE2; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:46:26 +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 04761-01-3; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:46:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC4A1FFC2; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:46:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED3E51FEAA for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:46:18 +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 04761-01-2 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:46:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from parker.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (parker.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.125]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 040BB1FFDA for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:46:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by parker.ACNS.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.3/8.13.4/8.11.0) with ESMTP id l42KkDhV835670 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 14:46:13 -0600 Original-Received: from ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.19]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.2/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id l42KkDf7827494 for ; Wed, 2 May 2007 14:46:13 -0600 In-Reply-To: <46382D46.5020300@internode.on.net> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.01 (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:34540 Archived-At: On Wed, 02 May 2007 00:18:46 -0600, James Buchanan wrote: > Thanks everyone for your input. I think I have enough to go on now. It > does seem MetaPost is easiest, but quickly gets complicated. Then you should definitely try TikZ > I have not > seen any simple geometry examples labeling angles, for example. I > suppose though I can figure out those things for myself when I get some > more practice in. Again, TikZ ;-) > Is there a book on ConTeXt that starts from the beginning like layout of > the page, setup of colors, and things like that, then typing in text, > and finally drawing, fonts, inclusion of graphics and things like that? There are two general manuals on ConTeXt in the official documentation, and also one (The MetaFun manual) on Metapost. Look all three up on the wiki: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Official_ConTeXt_Documentation#General_Manuals A real-life book on ConTeXt is still needed however. The manuals are a bit rough around the edges... 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/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________