Hi Gerben, On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> This should be based on (imo) merging the content of the excursion and > the manual. Here (and sometime earlier in the thread) you have suggested that you find the scattered documentation of ConTeXt confusing and would like to see an exhaustive manual. I agree with that in principle, but still believe that excursion and the manual should be separate. The manual can be a superset of excursion, but there needs to be "beginner's manual". If there is a exhaustive manual, it will be *huge*. An exhaustive manual on math will be of the size of a book; so would an exhaustive manual on metapost/mp-lib (think of an updated metafun manual). I can also imagine an exhaustive manual for fonts to be big (how do we handle fonts for lua/xetex/pdftex; how do we handle fonts for different scripts, etc.); and fairly large manuals for floats (three four mechanism for tables, about 20 ways to move around floats, etc.), critical editions (I don't know the status of the proposed module), bib module (the user manual for biblatex, which is similar in spirit to bib module, is huge), etc. So, if we want exhaustive documentation and a beginner's manual, I see that we only have the option of expanding on the excursion to have an upto date beginner's manual, expanding on the manual to have an upto date (but not exhaustive) user manual, and have a series of specialized exhaustive manuals. But that will still mean that the documentation is scattered. The way I see it, we can update the documentation, but not really solve the problem of scattered documentation :-( Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
