Hello all, I see a great discussion about documentation. As a beginner in Xetex system I always looked for a compilation "from beginning to end". My questions regarding this initiative: 1. Will it be a collaborative project? For instance, will everyone be able to add some input? 2. I think it should be some announcement about this project as some kind of motivator. Do you think it is needed? I saw many such ambitious projects, but some of them did not succeed.
Marcin Grotomirski 2010/9/10 Elliott Roper <[email protected]>: > Wilfred and Michiel, > Your ToCs are music to my ears. > > Yet, from the point of view of this intimidated casual beginner something > more is needed. To get started, I'm simultaneously learning aquamacs, emacs, > lisp, bash snippets and auctex while trying to discover the connections > between TeX and XeTeX, LaTeX and XeLaTeX and then finding out which features > of fontspec, context, memoir and all their cousins and uncles and aunts break > which features of the others. F'rinstance, I have set aside for the moment, > after advice here, the problem of escaping spaces and other special > characters in file and path names while using the various packages. It seems > every one of them is subtly different. XeTex and fontspec have polished up > the faded elegance of TeX with unicode and painless outline font support, yet > I'm still battling through a thicket of competing packages, trying to > discover their dependencies at the same time as trying to discover how each > can be useful to me. > > I'm not complaining -- that might come later <g>. I spent the rest of > yesterday reading the memoir class manual with a mixture of delight and awe. > I think I'll use memoir to compile a narrative of my journey through the > thicket. I hope I'll get far enough along to produce something useful to > others blundering about like me. I'm retired from work now, so I have plenty > of time to help where I can. This looks like better fun than gardening. > > On 10 Sep 2010, at 00:32, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > >> Hi Elliott, >> > <snip> ...and thanks. >> >> Your encouragement is good. I may even start considering making a tentative >> table of contents for the newly revamped xetex companion - see what comments >> it will attract. >> >> Cheerio, >> Wilfred > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
