All: Alan comments below on my "aggressive" post. I apologize if it was seen that way. I am serious in my evaluation of ConTeXt, and my questions are quite serious as well.
I cannot justify the effort in and cost of converting some 35 documents (many hundreds of pages) into a new format without an evaluation of the format and related tools. So, to restate my questions (potentially less aggressively), and in view of switching our entire technical documentation to ConTeXt: 1. Should I use mkii or mkiv? If mkii, then what should I plan on as schedule for upgrading? 2. Should I use context or texexec? As I understand, this is the same as asking whether to use pdftex or luatex. It may also be related to the mkii/mkiv issue, but I am less sure of that. 3. What *reference* material exists? I do not need a user guide. Right now it has been Google. However, the solutions most recently mentioned on the mailing lists seem to dead-end. I am fine with an answer of "see the source code" if that is really it. And I would still love a short, working example based on previous request. -Bryant -----Original Message----- From: Alan BRASLAU [mailto:alan.bras...@cea.fr] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:01 AM To: Bryant Eastham; ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Page Numbering Hell On Wednesday 21 October 2009 16:24:47 Bryant Eastham wrote: > > However, I find it interesting that in your response there was not a > single real answer to any of my direct questions, nor a working example > of what you admit should be a "simple matter". I clearly wrote that I find the new structure code to be a bit confusing, and invited "experts" to answer your specific questions (also commented in my framework "example"): > % missing setups to: > % 1. frontmatter pagenumbering conversion=romannumerals > % 2. bodymatter pagenumbering "chapter-page" > % 3. reset pagenumber for each chapter > % 4. add blank pages if necessary to start chapters on odd pages. It should be simple, but I have not taken the time/not had the need to look into this. Perhaps someone can easily fill this in (that is if not put-off by the agressivity of the posting). > However, I > believe that my original statements, which boil down to "This thing may > be great, but it needs to be documented (or where is it documented?)", > have been strengthened. Look at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page the paragraph on Documentation, and, in particular, the revision of the user manual. I, too, feel the great need for the updated manual. For this reason, I am trying to join the effort to bring forward its revision (to be done in my "spare time"). Writing good, complete documentation is hard! Alan ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
