Re: The ConTeXt book

[John Haltiwanger <john.haltiwanger@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> well, i use mkiv exclusively so that might be a sign that it's not that bad;
> the main issue is to keep mkiv and luatex in sync

Good to know :)

I would much prefer mkiv as well, as luatex seems much easier to grok
than TeX. I have the luck to be entering typographical programming at
a new stage. To what degree can luatex be relied on to accomplish all
that TeX macros can? Does certain functionality still require TeX
code?

Re: documentation,

Perhaps a thing to do in the meantime is start a section on the wiki
where we do a command by command description of what different macros
accomplish? (Apologies if I'm mincing terminologies here). Starting
with the undocumented ones, but then working back and providing a bit
of insight into use cases, such as what 'middle' may mean in a given
instance, or that it's the best/required option (this point is still
fuzzy to me). The command ref is just not insightful at my level of
TeX.

The thesis case study is concurrent typesetting of itself in HTML,
ODT, and ConTeXt. Part of the idea is to interrogate different
capabilities and comparing the processes between the formats for
accomplishing the same thing (toggle-able sidenotes instead of
footnote/endnote citations in ConTeXt vs HTML, for instance). So in
that sense there should be more tutorial style content available for
the wiki. I'll be pestering the list for help in those areas, I'm
sure.
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