On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: >> cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most > of the basic features. The features that are not in the manual are > mostly related to specific needs, so you can get around even if you do > not know about them. Some My Ways discuss some of these undocumented > features.
The undocumented features are documented in My Ways? :-) I found a few of those also, and it is very confusing to a newbie (such as myself) to figure out what is old and valid and what is old and not-so-valid... > Just give it a shot. The is "Latex in proper context" by Berend de > Boer which can help in the transition. The general information on > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt is also useful. Cool, thanks! > Context is very stable, and much better documented than latex. You can > start with small documents in context to get comfortable with it. The > best documents to start are those where you do not have a strict > formatting requirement, so that you do not need to worry if you can > not get something working. :-) That would be ideal. However, I'm looking to change horses because the documents I am already producing (newsletters for local groups (all volunteer)) are straining at what LaTeX wants me to do. So, I've been contemplating whether I should move "up" the abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or "down" to plain TeX and really learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) I'd rather move up. :-) :-) >> (IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should >> just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX is viable?) > > LuaTeX is not a replacement for LaTeX. It is a replacement for pdfTeX. > ... > pending feature requests getting implemented. So, if you are planning > on switching to context, there is no real need to wait for luatex. OK. Wasn't sure... > HTH, > Aditya Yes, it did/does, thank you! --Doug _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
