Hraban, Pablo,
I see that the day has been rich in exchanges and discussions that
interest me in several ways. Firstly, because it seems to me that
“Drucksachen mit ConTeXt” (from what I have been able to gather)
provides a very precise and unique insight into the implementation of
ConTeXt, and from this point of view I join Pablo in congratulating the
author on his admirable determination to produce such a useful work.
However, I would not compare “Drucksachen mit ConTeXt” with “A Not So
Short Introduction.” That would not be very interesting, even if the
comparison is legitimate. On the other hand, delving into technical
details that may be useful to people whose job is to make books,
especially by documenting thoughts that are not readily accessible when
it comes to ConTeXt, deserves an international (English) version and
perhaps also, as Pablo points out, localized versions in European
languages (after all, many of us think and communicate in languages
other than English).
For my part, I have been working for months (when I have a little time
for it) on developing a kind of “ConTeXt Manual for the Humanities,”
precisely to try to make public MWEs on specific topics that are of
primary interest to academics working on ancient or rare languages who
know nothing other than their experience with LaTeX.
This gives me the opportunity to explore the facets and potential of
ConTeXt. In addition, I have a large translation project ahead of me
that I hope to publish, and I am using the ‘environment’ method for this.
It seems fairly simple (frontmatter, bodymatter, backmatter; ‘env’
directories, etc.), yet I'm having a hell of a time numbering the
frontmatter pages in Roman numerals and the rest in Arabic numerals, and
handling the indexes correctly. I'm having similar problems to Hraban
with blank, unnumbered pages, etc. These situations make me grateful
once again (or yet again) to the contributors to the discussion list for
their insights and the help they often provide unexpectedly but always
quickly. Thank you folks and thank you Hraban, for your work!
Best//JP
Le 15/02/2026 à 14:57, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context a écrit :
On 2/15/26 13:01, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 15.02.26 um 12:48 schrieb Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context:
[...]
Congratulations again for the new book. May its high sales require (at
least, English and Spanish) translations,
I have ideas for an English/international edition that I’d like to
discuss (in a new thread); the current edition is quite German-centered,
there are things that don’t apply to most other countries/languages, and
it would be necessary to include more international options;
Well, first I wanted to write versions, since this is what they have to be.
Looking forward that new thread about the English/international edition.
let’s discuss which other languages make sense (would that be
European Spanish or one of the American ones?), I couldn’t help with
any.
As for Spanish, I’d rather say that it would be similar with German
(Austrian and Swiss variants aren’t exactly the same): European Spanish,
but modified to avoid the rough spots (avoid “coger” by all means, to
name an example).
A much lower hanging fruit would be updating and extending the “not so
short introduction”,
https://github.com/contextgarden/not-so-short-introduction-to-context
This is a different issue, since explanations benefit from different
approaches.
Pablo
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