On 2011-03-13 <23:12:36>, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > > >Speaking as a raw ConTeXt beginner, I would find it very helpful to have a > >library of different styles: LaTeX, journal, conference and book styles. > >Although all the information is probably there, it is very scattered around > >though manuals, the wiki, and other documents, and so is in consequence not > >always easy to find. > > Why don't you create a wiki page with the **exact** specifications. > Then others can write the ConTeXt code to show how to achieve that > specification.
> We can perhaps have a cookbook section on the wiki, which can use > these specification as exercise. +1, best idea so far. Not only regarding latex-specific commonplaces but for typographical tasks in general (along the lines of “how I implemented Bringhurst’s chapter enumeration” &c.). Would it suffice to just create another wiki namespace like the command reference has? (Entries should have a date stamp and state the context version they were written for.) Philipp > Without the exact specification, > it is very difficult to understand what a "journal" style or a > "book" style means. Not all journals and books have the same style. > > Aditya > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments
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