Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2007-01-02 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2006-12-30 um 10:28 schrieb Douglas Philips: > Arg. My bane. Fonts. The one thing that pulls me ever so slightly to > using Pages... > Not because I want a garish mix of goofball junk fonts, but because I > love Palatino for newletters > and Papyrus for cards and short notes... > I figured out

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2007-01-01 Thread Hans Hagen
plink wrote: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: > >> Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of >> ConTeXt indeed ;) >> > > ;-) > > should be wikified ... > > >>> (IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should >>> just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 30. des. 2006, at 7:38, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > Rolf Lindgren writes: >>> \setupindenting[medium, yes] >> >> ConTeXt seems to choke on the "yes" here. > > Hmm, texshow says lists 'yes' and 'medium' as valid keywords. What > ConTeXt version are you using? Can you post the error log? I had no

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Rolf Lindgren writes: > > \setupindenting[medium, yes] > > ConTeXt seems to choke on the "yes" here. Hmm, texshow says lists 'yes' and 'medium' as valid keywords. What ConTeXt version are you using? Can you post the error log? I had no problems running the whole hello-world file through the 20

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
On 30. des. 2006, at 6:47, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > \setupindenting[medium, yes] ConTeXt seems to choke on the "yes" here. -- Rolf Lindgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-conte

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 30, at 12:47 AM, Sanjoy Mahajan indited: >> So, I've been contemplating whether I should move "up" the >> abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or "down" to plain TeX and really >> learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) > > I wrote my dissertation using plain TeX plus eplain, > ... >

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 29, at 10:04 PM, Mojca Miklavec indited: > On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: >> The undocumented features are documented in My Ways? :-) > > Esp. the two MyWay's written by the author who mentioned that ;) :-) I see you also have one... all of which are next up on my Sunday aftern

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 29, at 2:22 PM, andrea valle indited: > Well, maybe I'm missing something. > But if you need to use ConTeXt on a mac you can use Gerben's distro, > which also set up a crontab for you, and when you update it simply > does > all the boring stuff for you (I hate TeX tree structure ...)

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-30 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 29, at 12:38 PM, plink indited: > Mojca Miklavec wrote: >> Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of >> ConTeXt indeed ;) > > ;-) > > should be wikified ... Probably, but it'd be sad to lose the ability to download and print it for offline reading (I may be i

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> So, I've been contemplating whether I should move "up" the > abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or "down" to plain TeX and really > learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) I wrote my dissertation using plain TeX plus eplain, and spent several days learning about insertions so that I could f

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/29/06, Douglas Philips wrote: > On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: > > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: > >> cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > > > That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most > > of

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread andrea valle
> Well, maybe I'm missing something. But if you need to use ConTeXt on a mac you can use Gerben's distro, which also set up a crontab for you, and when you update it simply does all the boring stuff for you (I hate TeX tree structure ...) http://ii2.sourceforge.net/tex-index.html Best -a- >

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread plink
Mojca Miklavec wrote: > Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of > ConTeXt indeed ;) ;-) should be wikified ... >> (IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should >> just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX is viable?) > > No reason for, as Aditya al

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited: > On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: >> cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most > of the basic features. The features that are not in

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-29 Thread Douglas Philips
On 2006 Dec 28, at 7:43 PM, Mojca Miklavec indited: > Well, the ConTeXt manual is one of the most stable components of > ConTeXt indeed ;) :-) > But consider it from the bright side: > yes, it's still fully usable (after two years of using ConTeXt it's > still hard to do anything without using it

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 18:58:25 -0700, John R. Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Most plain TeX (the > old stuff) documents will run under Context. Careful! This only works with a subset of Plain TeX documents. Don't remember any examples off hand (digging out of the second blizzard in a

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 28 December 2006 19:43, Mojca Miklavec wrote: then I finally discovered PSTricks which became > kind-of-obsolete with pdfTeX or XeTeX. The same story with just about > any package for creating slides or changing page layout, headers, > footers (and they all took a lot of time to learn

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 12/28/06, Douglas Philips wrote: > Hello again, > > I've just recently tried to "get up to speed" on ConTeXt by reading > what I could find on the web, including > cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). > > Recent activity on this list, discussing the Debian packag

Re: [NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote: > Hello again, > > I've just recently tried to "get up to speed" on ConTeXt by reading > what I could find on the web, including > cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). That is the most up to date manual and should get

[NTG-context] Manual (English) Update soon?

2006-12-28 Thread Douglas Philips
Hello again, I've just recently tried to "get up to speed" on ConTeXt by reading what I could find on the web, including cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001). Recent activity on this list, discussing the Debian packaging, says (and I commented on this a few day