[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello again, Oh come on, this is completely crap. The people at PRAGMA (i.e. Hans) share ConTeXt, wich is the holy grail that PRAGMA is based on (besides the knowledge). It is such a generous gift to the community. Please think about if you write stuff like that. I realize

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Salman, The problem with normal users cooking up new styles is the lack of artistic abilities in some people (like me). But you will never gain artistic abilities by simple copy/paste. One can, obviously go thru the manual cover the cover, but if one does not have creative

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello Paulo, Everyone learns a language by example, if you try to teach one you will see, even Patrick, when he was a baby learned his first language by example (real language), it is only natural, it is only human. To argue the contrary is just lack of experience in teaching. Right, but

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Nikolai Weibull
* Paulo Ney de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 03, 2004 11:21]: Everyone learns a language by example... What you should really be doing is asking specific questions to problems you're having with ConTeXt on this list. I have gotten almost all my questions answered by now. nikolai -- :::

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Hans Hagen
Nikolai Weibull wrote: * Paulo Ney de Souza [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Aug 03, 2004 11:21]: Everyone learns a language by example... What you should really be doing is asking specific questions to problems you're having with ConTeXt on this list. I have gotten almost all my questions answered by

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Paulo Ney de Souza
: Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation? Hello Paulo, Everyone learns a language by example, if you try to teach one you will see, even Patrick, when he was a baby learned his first language

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-03 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Paulo, Maybe we should move this discussion off the list to not bother others that may not be so interested in it. They should use the killfile and fill it with my name (and erverything related) :-) Seriously: the question concerning ConTeXt documentation and examples is brought up on this

[NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-02 Thread Patrick Gundlach
Hello, This is one of the sore points of ConTeXt and of the development effort. People at Pragma are willing to show off but not willing to share code and teach by example... contrary to most opensource projects I have seen. Oh come on, this is completely crap. The people at PRAGMA (i.e.

Re: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation?

2004-08-02 Thread Paulo Ney de Souza
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Aug 2 08:46:53 2004 From: Patrick Gundlach [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [NTG-context] Re: Best source of ConTeXt documentation? Oh come on, this is completely crap. The people at PRAGMA (i.e. Hans) share ConTeXt, wich