On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:37 AM, John Culleton wrote: > There are days when I feel like collecting all the bits and pieces and > writing somthing myself. But then I lie down until the fit passes.
The lack of proper end user documentation is one of the main problems with ConTeXt. There was talk of a book about ConTeXt but I haven't heard about that one for a while. Probably impossible given the lack of stability (aka ongoing development) of ConTeXt. ConTeXt could become very popular in teh TeX world if it had: - A decent versioning support (where you can get documentation and code that match and not code from 2008 with documentation from 2001) - Side-by-side development of manuals and code As it is now, the developing community is restricted to the few gurus who can hack the ConTeXt source code. No other sane person will try to release and support something on such a volatile foundation. What ConTeXt looks to me currently, is a personal swiss army knife of a few people who have no need for end user documentation (so it never arrives). I moved to ConTeXt years ago for a project expecting ConTeXt to stabilize and come with better documentation. It never happened. G ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
