Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-08-11 um 21:44 schrieb Hans Hagen: Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: BTW in LilyPond there's a multilingual glossary, perhaps we should start such, too? We often get confusion with technical terms. And at least in German there's currently not even a technical dictionary for the

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-11 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/8/10 Henning Hraban Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps explain that pt means point and is 1/72 inch. Is it? In TeX pt is 1/72.27 and 1/72 is bp. Best Martin ___ If your question is of interest to others as

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Am 2008-08-10 um 16:24 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf There is a new version now, same location. Response to other messages: * The two identical paragraphs in the hz section were an

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-11 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-08-11 um 13:08 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: Table 1.1 is not clear to me: I tried to make this more clear by altering both text and table a little. Thanks, *much* better! Perhaps explain that pt means point and is 1/72 inch. Ok, did that. And I guess Martin is right WRT pt vs. bp

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-11 Thread Hans Hagen
Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: BTW in LilyPond there's a multilingual glossary, perhaps we should start such, too? We often get confusion with technical terms. And at least in German there's currently not even a technical dictionary for the print/design industries. good idea, perfect for a

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-10 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi all, Taco Hoekwater wrote: 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. After 10 days of fairly heavy editting, I can now show you the first useful product of this project: an updated

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-10 Thread Yue Wang
Hi, Taco: direct link to the typography chapter's pdf: http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf Very cool and useful, Thank you! Yue Wang ___ If your question is of

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-10 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-08-10 um 16:24 schrieb Taco Hoekwater: http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf As this is a first attempt, corrections and suggestions are very welcome. The next goal will be the creation of a chapter that deals with font installation and

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-10 Thread John Devereux
Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi all, Taco Hoekwater wrote: 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. After 10 days of fairly heavy editting, I can now show you the

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-08-10 Thread Yue Wang
Hi: - p32, I can't see the difference between the two protruding examples. (Or the hz ones for that matter!). Yes, I reported this problem to Taco 3 or 4 hours ago in a private mail. I previously thought I was wrong and just one of the ``average reader'' described in the section. Your

[NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-07-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
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

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-07-30 Thread John Devereux
Taco Hoekwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-07-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
John Devereux wrote: One thing extra I would ask for is that parameters be actually *explained*, as well as simply listed, for each command. Perhaps a hyperlink to a generic explanation page if they are too trivial. Yes, that has been bothering more people (indeed even myself, sometimes).

Re: [NTG-context] Reference Manual Project

2008-07-30 Thread Hans Hagen
John Devereux wrote: 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