I'm around since prehistoric times, before internet, before wifi, before TeX...
So, what is the difference between a "forum" and threads on a mailing list? After all, the mailing list is archived (like a forum) and is searchable. In fact, a google search on typesetting keywords often comes-up with the ConTeXt mailing list - evidence of its activity! I do not like/use forums, as they require going to some web site and choosing a category, often badly structured, and thus opaque. Would a ConTeXt forum present any advantages over the mailing list? Alan On Sunday 12 December 2010 19:11:09 Achim Jander wrote: > Hi everybody, > I am trying to get into Context again. The documentation seems to be > somewhat better than one year ago (my last attempt) but still very > suboptimal. Many information (as well on Contextgarden as on Pragma) is > outdated, for example, the xml document on Pragma is dated 2001, the > "first document" on the context wiki does not mention mkiv (ok, at least > now there is a hint that something should be done about that). For a > newbie like me, the best chance of information seems to be the > mailing-list, where one can find a lot of gems. > After spending this cold and snowy sunday afternoon with the > mailing-list (and i got no further than to september 2010) I am > wondering why there ist no forum for Context. I spend a lot of time > getting into new themes, and I always like the functions of forums. > I think in a forum the acces to the relavant information could be very > quicklier than in a Mailing-List - which is in my opinion a relict of > the information possibilities of the 1990 (last century, only a minute > away from the middle ages :-). > Dont get me wrong, I like the unbelievable support which is done on the > mailing-list, but i think today there could be more efficient > possibilities. Any suggestions on that? > Thanks, > Achim ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
