Re: [NTG-context] Learning ConTeXt from the Ground Up

On 6/14/2013 9:17 AM, luigi scarso wrote:

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Malte Stien mailto:malte@stien.de> wrote:

To gather information about ConTeXt I have - read the ConTeXt Reference Manual (http://pmrb.free.fr/contextref.pdf) - bought a couple of the published books by Hans Hagen - started reading the "TeX book" by Donald Knuth

I have even briefly flirted with the idea of switching to LaTeX mainly because it would mean having a lot more literature and a broader community at my disposal. However, I just prefer the command structure and output of ConTeXt. Can anyone relate to my problem? Am I on the right track? What else should I be doing or reading to really break into ConTeXt?

you have missed - read the source Take a problem, grep the source see how Hans addresses the problem. There are examples on how to use a feature that sometime are not explained in manuals.

other resources: - the wiki - the test suite (lots of small examples) - modules by (e.g. wolfgangs modules are mkiv compliant) - maybe examples on stack exchange (there are nice ones there) - sites like http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com and probably more Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------