"...the book about Hasselt". That actually made me laugh out loud. What a loser I am.
Ok, goodnight now. :) On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Michael Saunders <odrad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You mean like the beginner's manual > > > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf > > > > and the user manual > > > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf > > > ... > > > > amongst 46 others by Pragma > > > No, not like those. I mean like a real manual. I read the book > about Hasselt---a few examples without explanations. > I've looked at most of the fifty or so documents over which > this virtual manual is supposed to be spread. They are about > as informative. Most of these documents seem to be 5--12 > years old. The wiki is even more patchy. The idea that a > computer manual is something that exists implicitly in the > discussions of a mailing list is a new idea to me. > > You can't be serious about "mk.pdf" being a manual. Even it > admits, "This document is not so much a users manual as a > history of the development." Little after that point is intelligible. > > Compared with the clear, abundant documentation of the > LaTeX world, Context seems like a secret that a small club is > trying to keep. It's not even clear from the manuals that > development is ongoing, much less that there is some advantage > in using it. > > So, will there ever be a manual to MK IV? In how many years? > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ >
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