Hi all, Following the discussion with Gerben over the past week, I have initialized a project for the creation of a new Context Reference Manual.
The goal is to create a complete manual documenting all of context's user-level commands with the focus on creating a reference manual, but not so much on providing a learner's manual. Anybody who is willing and able to help out in any way is very much invited to join in. The manual is to be distributed under the GNU Free Document License so that it can borrow text from the wiki, and also so that it can be included in free TeX distributions (like TeX Live). I have merged and checked in tex sources of a few base manuals just to get started. The sources are part of the contextman project at supelec: http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextman . There are no released files yet (that would be premature), but you can browse the repository via the SCM tab at supelec's project page. Alternatively, if you have a subversion client, check out the source tree to a local folder. There is also a mailing list, see http://lists.foundry.supelec.fr/mailman/listinfo/contextman-reference for details The current source tree in the repository is basically the english version of the 'Context Manual' plus * Fonts (mfonts.tex) * Columns sets (columns.tex) * Processing modes (mmodes.tex) * Texmfstart (mtexmfstart.tex) * Hyphenation patterns (mpattern.tex) but minus the images and using a simplified layout design. The project needs volunteers for just about everything: * merging existing manuals and wiki pages * copy-editing * writers for new chapters * proofreaders * it could also do with a nicer design so if you want to help out in any way, please subscribe to the mailing list via the link above (I don't want to overburden ntg-context with messages on this subject). Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
