On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com wrote:
I think you're thinking of 'forking' as something dangerous (yeah, the word
sounds painful), as something that will fragment the community, as something
that destroys the concept of 'authority'. It's really not. Where
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:10 AM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:35 AM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com
wrote:
- In my humble opinion, TeXies need to get out of the habit of
'self-documenting' TeX using TeX itself. TeX is not some replacement for
Hi Aditya,
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
Right, to show I'm not just empty words, I've just spent ~90 minutes
preparing the beginnings of some decent documentation. Presenting
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
(2) converted it all to reStructuredText using html2rest.py (
http://bitbucket.org/djerdo/musette/src/tip/musette/html/html2rest.py)
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
I personally prefer a massive PDF to a massive HTML with lots of images.
With pdf you can also *search* the output. A perfect solution will be to
generate both outputs from a single source, but that means a custom made
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
I personally prefer a massive PDF to a massive HTML with lots of images.
With pdf you can also *search* the output. A perfect solution will be to
generate both outputs from a single
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:06 AM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
(2) converted it all to reStructuredText using html2rest.py (
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com wrote:
lol; I thought this might come up. I have a couple of replies to that:
(1) First and most important: I'm not suggesting that we use TeX to document
things at all. I'm suggesting that ConTeXt documentation should be
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, luigi scarso wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
I personally prefer a massive PDF to a massive HTML with lots of images.
With pdf you can also *search* the
Hi Luigi,
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 6:42 PM, luigi scarso luigi.sca...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:25 PM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com
wrote:
lol; I thought this might come up. I have a couple of replies to that:
(1) First and most important: I'm not suggesting that we
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
I'm not saying that a dcvs is useless for documentation or manuals.
But without contributors a dcvs can be practically useless,
and the only contributors for manuals actually are Taco for luatex and
Hans for Context mkiv.
Why are they the only
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 8:44 PM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com wrote:
ConTeXt was not created to produce documentation for ConTeXt.
This is not the point.
The point is that code documentation of ConTeXt can be made with ConTeXt .
see for example
(Can I leave all of this for a bit? I'll reply tomorrow, I think, but
first...)
I'd like to go back to the very first post about problems with flush right.
The \setbreakpoints command works to an extent, but I'm still experiencing
issues where, when a hyphenated string has been broken, the first
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
I'd like to go back to the very first post about problems with flush right.
The \setbreakpoints command works to an extent, but I'm still experiencing
issues where, when a hyphenated string has been broken, the first half of it
still sticks out. I
Perfecto.
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu wrote:
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
I'd like to go back to the very first post about problems with flush
right.
The \setbreakpoints command works to an extent, but I'm still experiencing
issues where,
Am 03.03.10 20:19, schrieb James Fisher:
Hi,
I'm experiencing an issue where, when the width of a block of text is
small, the occasional word sticks out from the otherwise flush right.
I've previously seen an example of this in an image on the
contextgarden wiki, but now can't find it. To
Certainly works -- thanks Wolfgang.
Stymies me how people on this mailing list know this stuff -- even a Google
search for setbreakpoints, assuming I knew the command in advance, returns
nada.
James
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
schuster.wolfg...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:41 PM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com wrote:
Certainly works -- thanks Wolfgang.
Stymies me how people on this mailing list know this stuff -- even a Google
search for setbreakpoints, assuming I knew the command in advance, returns
nada.
So why don't you grep in
I suppose because
(1) The word 'breakpoint' didn't come to mind
(2) I'm used to consulting documentation rather than source code in the
first instance
(3) I've never worked in Turing tarpits before
(4) Grepping 'breakpoint' as suggested doesn't turn up anything obvious in
any case -- about 100
On 03.03.2010 22:41, ntg-context-requ...@ntg.nl wrote:
Stymies me how people on this mailing list know this stuff -- even a
Google search for setbreakpoints, assuming I knew the command in
advance, returns nada.
This all is sacred knowledge, for devoted seekers :o)
(Arthur, what about your
(Arthur, what about your church of TeX?)
I deny everything.
Arthur
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On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:19 PM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm getting the impression that there's no real-world distinction between
ConTeXt users and ConTeXt developers.
true , in some sense.
I mean that to use ConTeXt at its full potential one must write his
own setups and
Well, it's reassuring that people can at least admit this is a closed
community. (But aren't churches meant to evangelize?)
For using ConTEXt, no TEX-- programming skills and no technical background
are needed. (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/What_is_ConTeXt)
So why don't you grep in base/*
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
Also, re there is only one ConTeXt developer --- Hans Hagen:
I'd suggest a few reasons for this are:
(1) in order to develop on a project, you first need a the high-level
appreciation of the system that comes from documentation
MkII is fairly well
Right, to show I'm not just empty words, I've just spent ~90 minutes
preparing the beginnings of some decent documentation. Presenting
http://github.com/eegg/ConTeXt-doc : basically, I've:
(1) wget'ed all the English HTML from the texshow documentation
(2) converted it all to reStructuredText
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, James Fisher wrote:
Right, to show I'm not just empty words, I've just spent ~90 minutes
preparing the beginnings of some decent documentation. Presenting
http://github.com/eegg/ConTeXt-doc : basically, I've:
Interesting.
(2) converted it all to reStructuredText using
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:35 AM, James Fisher jameshfis...@gmail.com wrote:
- In my humble opinion, TeXies need to get out of the habit of
'self-documenting' TeX using TeX itself. TeX is not some replacement for
all markup, it's for producing beautiful books (OK, and some presentations);
I
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