On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:10 AM, Michael Saunders <odradek5@gmail.com> wrote:

> You mean like the beginner's manual
>
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/ms-cb-en.pdf
>
> and the user manual
>
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf
>
...
>
> amongst 46 others by Pragma

No, not like those. I mean like a real manual. I read the book
about Hasselt---a few examples without explanations.
I've looked at most of the fifty or so documents over which
this virtual manual is supposed to be spread. They are about
as informative. Most of these documents seem to be 5--12
years old. The wiki is even more patchy. The idea that a
computer manual is something that exists implicitly in the
discussions of a mailing list is a new idea to me.

You can't be serious about "mk.pdf" being a manual. Even it
admits, "This document is not so much a users manual as a
history of the development." Little after that point is intelligible.

Compared with the clear, abundant documentation of the
LaTeX world, Context seems like a secret that a small club is
trying to keep. It's not even clear from the manuals that
development is ongoing, much less that there is some advantage
in using it.

So, will there ever be a manual to MK IV? In how many years?
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