On 2/15/2024 8:25 PM, Tommaso Gordini wrote:
Thanks everyone for the suggestions on the manuals. I knew the resource
reported by Alain and, of course, that of Joaquín, whose translation
into Italian I have completed, but not yet refined.
However, I didn't know the file reported by Mikael, which I found to be
an excellent tutorial to get started with.
The documentation on ConTeXt is copious, and we know it: just look at
the manuals on Contextgarden. But it is decidedly fragmented, and this
disorientates the user.
I believe, therefore, that what the community misses is a
tutorial/reference manual/complete guide that comes /directly/ from the
ConTeXt team (Hans, Wolfgang, etc). And, above all, that it is up to
date: on Contextgarden many ‘valid’ manuals date back to many years ago,
and the obsolescence of the software guides could make people say
something like «well, stuff from years ago, I don't trust it».
A manual in a single file that has, in short, the seal of officiality:
the various resources in circulation are just as many excellent efforts
by individuals, who however have put their own approach to ConTeXt into
their work. Perhaps there is a more correct approach than others, more
essential, which is worth knowing.
I am speaking to you as a LaTeX user, and therefore I may have written a
lot of nonsense in my message.
I conclude by saying that, in the end, the ConTeXt team may not be
interested in all this, and therefore our discussions are pure academic. :)
As with latex it's not dev who have to write documentation, manuals,
books ... so any addition is okay. There are only 24 hours in my day
(maybe a few more in wolfgangs),
Hans
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