On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:07:55 -0600, Russell Urquhart
russurquha...@verizon.net wrote:
As a tech writer for 27+ years, who is a recent Context newbie, I
applaud your efforts and wish you the best. I just recently have been in
the middle of a paradigm change myself, going from Xywrite on
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 01:16:55PM -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
wrote:
Yes!! That's _exactly_ the challenge! My vision is for ConTeXt to break
out of the shell!
:-)
Best wishes
Idris
--
Hi Idris,
As a tech writer for 27+ years, who is a recent Context newbie, I
On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 09:20, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
And
from what I see on this list, I'm not sure winblows users are the majority.
According to statistics of distribution downloads (just counting
unique IPs, so not absolutely accurate), windows users amount to
17-20% downloads. Wiki gets
According to statistics of distribution downloads (just counting
unique IPs, so not absolutely accurate), windows users amount to
17-20% downloads. Wiki gets 46% of windows users.
Have you ever googled for something context related? You end up mostly with
false positives because context can
On 15-8-2011 9:51, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 08/15/2011 09:46 AM, Florian Wobbe wrote:
Have you ever googled for something context related? You end up mostly
with false positives because context can appear just in any context.
I wonder if all those windows hits are from people who searched
2011/8/15 Florian Wobbe florian.wo...@awi.de:
Have you ever googled for something context related? You end up mostly with
false positives because context can appear just in any context.
They even have their own conference: http://context-11.teco.edu :-)
Best
Martin
Dear Knights,
A lot of the criticism seems to miss the point :-)
Part of the aim of the Book is to bring in new users, most of us here
already know what we're doing. And M$-Windows dominates the marketplace
for better or for worse.
I want to break out of the usual paradigm of presenting
On Mon 15 Aug 2011, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On 08/15/2011 09:16 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
Under linux Wine sometimes does a great job.
*If* the linux user happens to have 150 bucks and thinks it's a good
idea to give that to Microsoft.
Huh? I've been using Wine for a while (though not for
On 08/15/2011 11:51 AM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Dear Knights,
A lot of the criticism seems to miss the point :-)
Part of the aim of the Book is to bring in new users, most of us here
already know what we're doing. And M$-Windows dominates the marketplace
for
Hi Pablo,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:30:42 -0600, Pablo Rodríguez oi...@web.de wrote:
I'd use TeXworks as the editor
So would I, except that TeXWorks is not as rich in the features I'd like,
nor does it handle arabic-script as well as needed.
Believe me, I've looked at just about every option
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 06:38:42 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
isha...@colostate.edu wrote:
The functionality I can extract from Npp gives a pedagogical advantage
that's important for what I'm trying to achieve. For example, dbl-click a
word and get a context-menu that allows you
2011/8/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu:
Believe me, I've looked at just about every option out there :-)
I believe you. And I think the editor is a typical bikeshed. :-)
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law_of_Triviality
I applaud your
Are we both talking about http://code.google.com/p/texworks/ ? Because
that's free (GPLv2) and runs on Windows, OSX and Linux.
I guess Kip meant WinEdt.
Arthur
___
If your question is of interest to
Hi Martin,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:35:24 -0600, Martin Schröder mar...@oneiros.de
wrote:
2011/8/15 Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد isha...@colostate.edu:
Believe me, I've looked at just about every option out there :-)
I believe you. And I think the editor is a typical bikeshed. :-)
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:42 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
Are we both talking about http://code.google.com/p/texworks/ ? Because
that's free (GPLv2) and runs on Windows, OSX and Linux.
Best
Martin
Hey Martin. I meant WinEdt. Sorry for the ambiguity.
--
Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 09:20 +0200, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
I, for one, am not willing to start wine to run something as basic as a
text editor.
My sentiments precisely.
--
Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
OpenPGP encrypted/signed mail preferred
http://www.thevertigo.com
signature.asc
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 09:20 +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
*If* the linux user happens to have 150 bucks and thinks it's a good
idea to give that to Microsoft. No thanks. It's of course way too early
to say anything about a project that I haven't seen a single line of,
but tying it to an
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 03:51 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي
حامد wrote:
And M$-Windows dominates the marketplace
for better or for worse.
Hey Idris. I think what the folks here are saying is that that's not
necessarily true - for ConTeXt.
--
Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
OpenPGP
Hi Kip,
On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:43:40 -0600, Kip Warner k...@thevertigo.com wrote:
And M$-Windows dominates the marketplace
for better or for worse.
Hey Idris. I think what the folks here are saying is that that's not
necessarily true - for ConTeXt.
Yes!! That's _exactly_ the challenge! My
On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 13:16 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي
حامد wrote:
Yes!! That's _exactly_ the challenge! My vision is for ConTeXt to
break
out of the shell!
Best of luck to you. We all look forward to reading the book when done.
=)
--
Kip Warner -- Software Engineer
OpenPGP
20 matches
Mail list logo
