Dnia Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:07:42AM -0700, Corin Royal Drummond napisał(a): > Dear Professor Idriss, and the Lovely ConTeXT Community, > > What a thoughtful and warm response to my late night introductory rant. > You've most certainly gained a dedicated new user today. Your restraint and > courtesy to my half-considered diatribe is most heartening. Amazingly, you > managed to answer alot of questions I wasn't fully aware I was asking.
Hear, hear! ;) > > Since I wrote to the list last night, I have continued learning ConTeXt at a > frightening clip. Did my first drop caps, indentations, and messed around > with setting width and height. I can't remember when my computer has brought > me so much fun. Wow... I'm pretty much in the same situation - just can't wait to start using ConTeXt on a more serious basis! The only problem is, that for me writing in LaTeX (or even plain TeX) is waaay faster - I remember most commands etc. > > I'm beginning to see that there is a fair amount of documentation, but it's > sprayed all over and needs some TLC. I think what I'd like to contribute to > ConTeXt is some more docs. I'm thinking of doing some web video screencasts > (easy on Linux) showing off how to do specific things like Lettrines or > multi-line headers, explaining the format of options and parameters, and > generally helping people see and appreciate the ConTeXt way. I had the very same plan, but currently I'm very busy. I started a page on the wiki about fonts for beginners but stopped because of poor time management:(. Hope to get to it back again; if anyone wants to help, it'd be great! And presentations/screencasts suck (I have 128 megs of RAM;)). It's better to give sample code. There is a command on ConTeXtgarden (I can't load it in my browser, so I can't check the syntax, but I've used it on the aforementioned page) which shows both the code and the result. > > I would seem that ConTeXt has a natural market in web developers who are used > to writing structured documents for layout engines. Personally, I'd like to > see a Drupal module that will ConTeXtify a person's website as a book or > magazine for printing. How great would it be to have an automatically > updating e-book for print and screen generated off your website's content > based on your tags/taxonomy. Just add "FortheBook" tag to an article, and > without one having to do any more, it will appear in the PDF available on the > front page of your site. There is a LaTeX module for Drupal, but I haven't > tried it. I think such a module would help to whet other web developer's > appetite for ConTeXT. > > I think one of the joys of ConTeXt for me is that web development just sucks > for typography. There are only a handful of fonts one can specify in any > document unless you embed them in images (which God told me was a sin). By > contrast, with ConTeXt, I feel like a kid in a candy store, with so many > things I can do to my text. I nearly had a fit when I got hanging > punctuation working. > > Thanks again for your kind counsel Idriss, I hope I can help you guys out by > writing some new docs, and being an evangelist for ConTeXt. Never have I > found a piece of software that so deserved wider recognition. > > I will definitely keep an eye out for Mojca and Luigi. Would be so excited > to meet a local ConTeXt user. > > With deep gratitude, > > Corin Royal Drummond > San Francisco Yet another ConTeXt newbie and fan;) -- Marcin Borkowski (http://mbork.faculty.fmcs.amu.edu.pl) Jezus żyje NAPRAWDĘ. A Ty? ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
