Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12-12-2010 7:43, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I do not like/use forums, as they require going to some web site and choosing a category, often badly structured, and thus opaque. Would a ConTeXt forum present any advantages over the mailing list? Not for me as I have no time to keep eyes on forums

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
On 12/13/2010 09:27 AM, Hans Hagen wrote: On 12-12-2010 7:43, Alan BRASLAU wrote: I do not like/use forums, as they require going to some web site and choosing a category, often badly structured, and thus opaque. Would a ConTeXt forum present any advantages over the mailing list? Not for me

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-13 Thread Jonas Stein
wondering why there ist no forum for Context. I spend a lot of time getting into new themes, and I always like the functions of forums. What functions do you miss? Have you tried the gmane mirror? You can configure your newsreader to be coloured like a forum. Some even support to exchange

[NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Achim Jander
Hi everybody, I am trying to get into Context again. The documentation seems to be somewhat better than one year ago (my last attempt) but still very suboptimal. Many information (as well on Contextgarden as on Pragma) is outdated, for example, the xml document on Pragma is dated 2001, the

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12-12-2010 7:11, Achim Jander wrote: outdated, for example, the xml document on Pragma is dated 2001, the fyi: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/xml-mkiv.pdf is not that old and describes mkiv xml support the 2001 doc describes mkii xml support and not much has changed with

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Alan BRASLAU
I'm around since prehistoric times, before internet, before wifi, before TeX... So, what is the difference between a forum and threads on a mailing list? After all, the mailing list is archived (like a forum) and is searchable. In fact, a google search on typesetting keywords often comes-up

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Peter Münster
On Sun, Dec 12 2010, Achim Jander wrote: Dont get me wrong, I like the unbelievable support which is done on the mailing-list, but i think today there could be more efficient possibilities. I think, the efficiency of mailing-list or forum depends on the tools you use. For me, a mailing-list

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 12.12.2010 um 20:02 schrieb Peter Münster: See also the related thread about a German ConTeXt Initiative: http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2010/047755.html I don't know, if this forum still exists. It does exist but nothing happened there since two months. Mojca set up another

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Johannes Graumann
Try the mailing list as carried by gmane.org Joh Achim Jander wrote: Hi everybody, I am trying to get into Context again. The documentation seems to be somewhat better than one year ago (my last attempt) but still very suboptimal. Many information (as well on Contextgarden as on Pragma) is

Re: [NTG-context] How about a forum

2010-12-12 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010, Achim Jander wrote: Dont get me wrong, I like the unbelievable support which is done on the mailing-list, but i think today there could be more efficient possibilities. Any suggestions on that? You can try tex.stackexchange.com, a stack stack-overflow-like site