[NTG-context] Re: The speed of development?

2005-12-15 Thread leon
Many thanks, Mojca. It's very informative.

Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 | leon wrote:
 |  Hi guys,
 | 
 |  I read in various places that the pace of development is fast. I don't
 |  get a clue of what that means.
 | 
 | See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes.
 | 
 |  As far as I know LaTeX hasn't been
 |  updated for over 3 years. So how fast is conTeXt being developed? The
 |  conTeXt manual dated 2001 since pretty old to me. Am I right?
 | 
 | LaTeX has (almost) nothing to do with ConTeXt, but even LaTeX packages
 | are updated every now and then.
 | 
 | Hans is coding so fast that he doesn't have enough time to document
 | everything ;)
 | Sure, the manual is somehow outdated: many new features are not yet
 | described there (perhaps in some other manual, on wiki, on the mailing
 | list archive, in the source or nowhere yet), but the manual is still
 | very useful - since ConTeXt is backward compatible and the most
 | important functionality was already there at that time, you can safely
 | use it.
 | 
 | Mojca

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[NTG-context] Re: The speed of development?

2005-12-14 Thread leon
Many thanks for your reply.

Hans Hagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 | leon wrote:
 | 
 | Hi guys,
 | 
 | I'm starting to use conTeXt. And thanks for all those people encourage
 | me in my last email.
 | 
 | I read in various places that the pace of development is fast. I don't
 | get a clue of what that means. As far as I know LaTeX hasn't been
 | updated for over 3 years. So how fast is conTeXt being developed? The
 | conTeXt manual dated 2001 since pretty old to me. Am I right?
 |   
 | 
 | sure, but it's only one of the many manuals ... more detailed manuals
 | came later; see website for more details
 | 
 | (the texbook is older -)
 | 
 | concerning development ... it's driven by what we need here, by what
 | users demand, and what is fun to implement
 | 
 | Hans

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.  /.''.'\. 
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. /'.''.'.\   . 
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