> No, not like those. I mean like a real
manual. I read the book
> about Hasselt---a few examples without explanations.
I am absolutely gobsmacked (astounded, astonished)
at some of the comments on this and other threads!
"ConTeXt - an Excursion" and "ConTeXt
the Manual" together are wonderful. I still consult them at least
once a week
after 4 year's use. If you actually tried the examples
in the former, rather than just reading them, you
would be an expert user within 2 days!
It would be nice to think that the community could
construct documentation, but good, coherent documentation
is much harder to produce than good code! It works
for collections of small articles (WikiPedia etc), but
I've never seen a good book written by a community.
While it would be nice to have an updated "ConTeXt
the Manual", in my humble opinion the biggest hole
in the documentation is a reference for each command.
Texshow-web should fill this gap and this is
where the community CAN contribute, and where the
mechanism already exists. And because it's made up of
small articles it could work. When I learn about a
command I try to fill in a few words in
texshow-web. If everyone added a few words each time
they learn a new command, we would soon have
a fantastic reference source.
Richard
P.S. One request for improvement to texshow-web: the
source-file for each command is included
in cont-en.xml, could this be displayed on the command
web-page? It would make it easier to
find the source if you need to.
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