[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Don’t forget the articles from the context journal: https://articles.contextgarden.net/ (2022 is still missing) Esp. Taco’s about MetaPost are very interesting and maybe that’s some low level stuff you’re missing. You don’t need to look at Hans’ contributions – everything that’s still valid

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/15/2024 8:25 PM, Tommaso Gordini wrote: Thanks everyone for the suggestions on the manuals. I knew the resource reported by Alain and, of course, that of Joaquín, whose translation into Italian I have completed, but not yet refined. However, I didn't know the file reported by Mikael, whic

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Tommaso Gordini
Thanks everyone for the suggestions on the manuals. I knew the resource reported by Alain and, of course, that of Joaquín, whose translation into Italian I have completed, but not yet refined. However, I didn't know the file reported by Mikael, which I found to be an excellent tutorial to get star

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 15 Feb 2024, Mikael Sundqvist wrote: > Hi, > > This small example from BachoTeX 2023 could perhaps be useful for > someone: https://github.com/mpsmath/stepbystep For tutorials, I had played around with using a git repo as a tutorial: https://github.com/adityam/context-slides-example/com

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Tommaso Gordini
Thank you, Mikael, excellent tutorial, for me. Ciao Tommaso Il giorno gio 15 feb 2024 alle ore 09:29 Mikael Sundqvist ha scritto: > Hi, > > This small example from BachoTeX 2023 could perhaps be useful for > someone: https://github.com/mpsmath/stepbystep > > /Mikael > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-15 Thread Mikael Sundqvist
Hi, This small example from BachoTeX 2023 could perhaps be useful for someone: https://github.com/mpsmath/stepbystep /Mikael On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 8:31 AM Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context wrote: > > Hi, > > Am 14.02.24 um 19:45 schrieb Sir Coleman via ntg-context: > > I wanted to create mor

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke via ntg-context
Hi, Am 14.02.24 um 19:45 schrieb Sir Coleman via ntg-context: I wanted to create more of a reference, a complete reference, and one that's of course not meant to be read from cover to cover. I think that setup-en.pdf is a good starting point for a complete reference as it contains the comma

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 2/14/2024 8:37 PM, Joaquín Ataz López wrote: I join the thanks to the other members of the list. I think that good documentation is essential in any project, and, in particular, a low-level explanation of ConTeXt that is understandable without being an accomplished TeX programmer seems to me

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Joaquín Ataz López
I join the thanks to the other members of the list. I think that good documentation is essential in any project, and, in particular, a low-level explanation of ConTeXt that is understandable without being an accomplished TeX programmer seems to me a great idea. As for TeX documentation, I don'

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Sir Coleman via ntg-context
First of all, I'm grateful for your offer, and hope that you find it valuable indeed. However, I must say that this isn't what I had in mind. I wanted to create more of a reference, a complete reference, and one that's of course not meant to be read from cover to cover. What you're suggesting s

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-14 Thread Jim
Hi, a book like this would be very valuable. I hope your project is successful. And, as soon as you have something on gitlab, I will be happy to read it and give feedback. In terms of organization... one of the things I don't like about "A Not So Short Guide..." is that it starts with informati

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Shiv Shankar Dayal
Please write one. More documentation is needed. On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 3:55 AM Sir Coleman via ntg-context < ntg-context@ntg.nl> wrote: > I'm glad to know there's a demand for this book. > > Hopefully soon I'll upload a draft of it to GitLab, so if there's anything > that you learned that you wo

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Sir Coleman via ntg-context
I'm glad to know there's a demand for this book. Hopefully soon I'll upload a draft of it to GitLab, so if there's anything that you learned that you would like to contribute to this book, you would be able to do so. I personally would be very happy if someone would give me examples of things a

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Peter Hopcroft via ntg-context
Thank you Sir Coleman. I’m a Context beginner and I’d love a good book introducing me to Context. I’ve wasted many hours trying to figure out how to do things that turned out to be simple. The answer is often/sometimes buried in the documentation, and what would really help me is a book that is

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Sir Coleman via ntg-context
Acknowledged. However, this does reinforce my point, that the documentation needs to be updated. The examples on the wiki still use \getcounter, and naturally they all fail to compile. Hence, my ambition to create a book to serve as the documentation, which I find is a better medium for communi

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 13.02.2024 um 20:44: >> This is wrong, the counter commands are official and the number variants are kept for backwards compatibility with old styles. I do recall reading on the ConTeXt wiki that \definenumber is maintained for backwards compatibility reas

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread SirColeman via ntg-context
>> This is wrong, the counter commands are official and the number variants are >> kept for backwards compatibility with old styles. I do recall reading on the ConTeXt wiki that \definenumber is maintained for backwards compatibility reasons. However, why then does ConTeXt fail to compile with

[NTG-context] Re: An announcement of my new book.

2024-02-13 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
SirColeman via ntg-context schrieb am 12.02.2024 um 08:49: Greetings all. I have a passion for typesetting. I found that currently the best typesetting systems are those that are based on TeX. Of them, there are LaTeX, and ConTeXt. LaTeX is very well documented and popular; ConTeXt, on the other