With ConTeXt there is, of course, the "excursion" (equiv. to (1)) and
the manual (2), but many important issues (the phantastic XML
processing
capabilities, bibliography stuff, typography, font management,...) are
not quite complete or covered elsewhere (i.e. situation 3).
I totally agree. There are of course documents about the last topics
you mention (not to talk about the mailing list, of course),
but they seems to need a more general introduction, at least for
me. I'd like to have a book
covering all the aspects so that you a conceptual frame which unifies
the whole stuff. Then, you can procede by yourself in
a more organized way.
By the way, a similar issue has been raised about SuperCollider,
which in my esperience is similar for documentation to ConTeXt.
Many deep documents, a huge work by the developers, some good intro/
tutorial, but no a complete book.
The situation has now evolved in a project about a SC book which has
been submitted to MIT Press.
In any case, I cannot understand how people can go back to LaTeX, I
mean from a user's perpsective. I'm a total ConTeXt ignorant but,
just using setups, I've created A1 musical scores involving metapost
and importing external files, A0 academic posters using layers so
much better then powerpoint, an on-going book full of syntax
colorized code...I just wouldn't started with LaTeX :-)
Best
-a-
Ulf
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I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who
doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this
guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with
me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss
Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information.
(Annabel Chong)
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