I agree, too. I have praised the "Excursion" before -- an excellent
one-author work -- and if you also consult the "Manual" you can do a
lot. For special questions, there is always Wolfgang ...
On 3/5/10 1:50 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:01 AM, richard.steph...@converteam.com wrote:
> No, not like those. I mean like a real manual. I read the book
> about Hasselt---a few examples without explanations.
I am absolutely gobsmacked (astounded, astonished) at some of the
comments on this and other threads!
"ConTeXt - an Excursion" and "ConTeXt the Manual" together are
wonderful. I still consult them at least once a week
after 4 year's use. If you actually tried the examples in the former,
rather than just reading them, you
would be an expert user within 2 days!
Hear hear! I couldn't agree more and am happy that a voice of reason
appears in this somewhat meandering thread!
It would be nice to think that the community could construct
documentation, but good, coherent documentation
is much harder to produce than good code! It works for collections of
small articles (WikiPedia etc), but
I've never seen a good book written by a community.
also +1 Wasn't there this wonderful saying that a camel is a horse
designed by committee?
Thomas
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