[NTG-context] Re: As a person with very basic LaTeX skills, no experience with programming languages and an interest in LMTX (I have been coding extremely basic LMTX), how do I properly learn LMTX as a beginner to any coded language?

There are some introductions linked in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Documentation Manuals written for MkIV still apply to LMTX, even if there are sometimes better alternatives to some constructs. I don’t think plain TeX literature like Knuth’s TeXbook or Eikhout’s TeX by topic makes sense for a beginner, depending on what you want to do. It makes no sense to try to learn ConTeXt on the dry; choose a project and overcome its problems one after the other. If you don’t have an application for TeX, you don’t need to learn it. What do you want to achieve? Hraban Am 24.09.24 um 08:10 schrieb Shiv Shankar Dayal:

The easiest way is going through Wiki and manuals and their sources in the distribution. After that perhaps learn TeX from one of the textbooks like TeXBook, TeX by Topic and TeX for Impatient. For Metapost the manuals are quite extensive and their are many resources listed on Wiki.

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 11:35 AM Felix wrote:

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I am someone who knows very basic LaTeX (I mostly learned with YouTube videos, but I would also honestly use AI to generate some code that I wanted it to make), extremely basic LMTX, and nothing like C++ or anything that I think would be considered "proper" programming languages. I have an interest in learning the newest edition of ConTeXt, but I am not sure if there is anything that could even guide a beginner wanting to learn the newest edition of ConTeXt (I believe MKIV and LMTX are regarded as being quite different). I want to get out of the habit of using AI to make stuff for me and to truly understand LMTX, but how can I do so if I seemingly do not have much understanding of ... I'll say "coding" in general? It is sometimes hard for me to read the documentation on ConTeXt garden, and I don't understand some things, but is this due to my lack of experience of looking at documentation? I would love any advice given to me. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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