Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-04-01 Thread Hans Hagen
Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Aditya Sorry, I have no idea of how things work on a Mac, but it seems strange to hide the entire tex tree simply, the whole usr folder is hidden OK, but when you install Windows, the whole C:\ directory

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-31 Thread Aditya Mahajan
I would seem that ConTeXt has a natural market in web developers who are used to writing structured documents for layout engines. Personally, I'd like to see a Drupal module that will ConTeXtify a person's website as a book or magazine for printing. How great would it be to have an

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-31 Thread Andrea Valle
Thanks Aditya Sorry, I have no idea of how things work on a Mac, but it seems strange to hide the entire tex tree simply, the whole usr folder is hidden Ok, I'll take a look an in case come back to the list Best -a- --

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-31 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Andrea Valle wrote: By reading the source :) Joking of course ... but not entirely. Yes, that's an important point. Many times the options I'm searching for are not documented: so, or I'm able to find an example in wiki/mailing list or probably it would be easy

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-31 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2008-03-31 um 17:33 schrieb Aditya Mahajan: How-to-find-your-way-thru-the-source Tutorial for total newbie. The first thing that you need to know is the file where a particular command is defined. You can search the source tree on contextgarden; or grep the files in your computer. After

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-31 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Andrea Valle wrote: Thanks Aditya Sorry, I have no idea of how things work on a Mac, but it seems strange to hide the entire tex tree simply, the whole usr folder is hidden OK, but when you install Windows, the whole C:\ directory is hidden as well if I

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
Hi Corin, Welcome. I will offer some brief comments, and maybe others will elaborate on things I skip, pass over, or inadequately discuss: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 02:01:30 -0600, Corin Royal Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've long been curious about TeX but it seemed too ossified, No,

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Corin Royal Drummond wrote: Hello ConTeXt Users, I have become obsessed with ConTeXt since I found out about it while browsing through the TeX related software on my Ubuntu Linux box. I've been teaching myself web development in XHTML/CSS over the last

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread Corin Royal Drummond
Hi Corin, Welcome. I will offer some brief comments, and maybe others will elaborate on things I skip, pass over, or inadequately discuss: Mojca is probably the main point person. Welcome again to ConTeXt and Best wishes Idris Dear Professor Idriss, and the Lovely ConTeXT Community, What a

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread Marcin Borkowski
Dnia Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:07:42AM -0700, Corin Royal Drummond napisa#322;(a): Dear Professor Idriss, and the Lovely ConTeXT Community, What a thoughtful and warm response to my late night introductory rant. You've most certainly gained a dedicated new user today. Your restraint and

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread David
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:50:59 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote: I don't know the English version of it (there must be one - if anyone knows it, I would be glad to hear it), but we have a nice saying, literally translated as: Farrier's own mare is always barefoot. (In English it's almost

Re: [NTG-context] New Member Introductory Rant

2008-03-30 Thread Andrea Valle
By reading the source :) Joking of course ... but not entirely. Yes, that's an important point. Many times the options I'm searching for are not documented: so, or I'm able to find an example in wiki/ mailing list or probably it would be easy to take a look to the sources, I guess. I