Re: ConTeXt Book: Request for help!

["Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Dear Knights,

A lot of the criticism seems to miss the point :-)

Part of the aim of the Book is to bring in new users, most of us here  
already know what we're doing. And M$-Windows dominates the marketplace  
for better or for worse.

I want to break out of the usual paradigm of presenting TeX and try  
something new and fresh. I want to give ConTeXt to my (or your) secretary,  
not just to geeks like most of us. I want to get them rolling as smoothly  
as possible. Telling a total newbie to go find one's own editor is not  
going to expand the ConTeXt ecosystem very efficiently.

As I said, the Book will not be "tied" to an editor. But I will use one as  
a way of easing the way for the maximum number of total non-geeks to get  
involved with ConTeXt. That's part of the vision I have.

To realize that vision, at this point I need some help writing and  
compiling lexer code, which I really don't want to have to learn to do  
myself; I simply don't have the time and would rather concentrate my  
skills more efficiently.

I hope one of you out there will help me :-):-):-)

Best wishes
Idris
-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief
International Journal of Shīʿī Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523
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