Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-10-29 Thread Geoffrey Alan Washburn
John R. Culleton wrote: > My preferences in order are printed book, downloadable source, > downloadable pdf and online anything. Information needs to be > structured, indexed, portable, easily readable. Speaking of printed manuals, it struck me the other day that an interim solu

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-10-04 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > Does this mean that in future (distant future) it will be possible to > simple pass cont-en.fmt file along with the source file and write > > %&cont-en > > in the tex file, and someone just having plain tex can run > > tex filename (possibly multiple times) to get the

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-10-04 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> I don't agree that lack of a current manual is a big problem for >> potential users of ConteXt. In my experience, the biggest problem is >> with the 3rd party tools (perl, ghostscript, ruby) on Win32 and legacy >> commercial u

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-10-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
John R. Culleton wrote: > What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new > features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a > common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features > discussed daily here are not in it. One must chase around the > wiki and the

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-29 Thread Hans Hagen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't agree that lack of a current manual is a big problem for > potential users of ConteXt. In my experience, the biggest problem is > with the 3rd party tools (perl, ghostscript, ruby) on Win32 and legacy > commercial unix (where ruby is not provided and the system

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 29 September 2006 10:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 9/28/06, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new > > features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a > > common index. The 2001 manual is great, but

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-29 Thread gnwiii
On 9/28/06, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new > features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a > common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features > discussed daily here are not in it. One must

Re: [NTG-context] A new Manual

2006-09-29 Thread Fidel Viegas
On 9/28/06, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new > features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a> common index.> If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a> lot of customers.>I'd buy it i

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-29 Thread Ricard Roca
And me too. No doubt! Ricard Roca ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-28 Thread Alexander Lazic
On Don 28.09.2006 09:42, Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So wrote: >I would buy it too... I too ;-)) Ragards Alex ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context

Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-28 Thread Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So
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Re: [NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-28 Thread Nikolai Weibull
On 9/28/06, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new > features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a > common index. > If a consolidated manual set were offered for sale there would be a > lot of customers. I'd b

[NTG-context] A new manual

2006-09-28 Thread John R. Culleton
What is needed now for greater acceptance of Context is not new features but a new manual, perhaps a multi volume set with a common index. The 2001 manual is great, but many of the features discussed daily here are not in it. One must chase around the wiki and the individual manuals like "details",