On 08/08/2018 08:50 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > [...] > I’m also writing a (beginners) book on ConTeXt in German, and I find > it really hard to decide what I should include. It can’t become a > reference, a complete one is impossible anyway.
Hi Hraban, your book will be an important reference, althought it won’t be “the reference” (I doubt such a thing might exist). > E.g. I wanted margin notes. Like footnotes, but in the margin. No > problem if you want them at the bottom. Very hard if you want them like > marginals, starting in the line of the marker... Is this common enough > to include it in my book? I would say this is too specific. But I would provide the explanation in the wiki. > As a media designer, who’s also working with InDesign, my focus is of > course different from a scientist who just wants her thesis > readable... I think it is essential to have a wider range of explanations on how to do things with ConTeXt (or even with computers, but this is a different topic). I’m not saying that other approaches are wrong. Just only not everyone may understand things the same way. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
