On 2006 Dec 28, at 5:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan indited:
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Douglas Philips wrote:
cont-eni.pdf (ConTeXt the manual by Hans Hagen, November 12th, 2001).
That is the most up to date manual and should get you started for most of the basic features. The features that are not in the manual are mostly related to specific needs, so you can get around even if you do not know about them. Some My Ways discuss some of these undocumented features.
The undocumented features are documented in My Ways? :-) I found a few of those also, and it is very confusing to a newbie (such as myself) to figure out what is old and valid and what is old and not-so-valid...
Just give it a shot. The is "Latex in proper context" by Berend de Boer which can help in the transition. The general information on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt is also useful.
Cool, thanks!
Context is very stable, and much better documented than latex. You can start with small documents in context to get comfortable with it. The best documents to start are those where you do not have a strict formatting requirement, so that you do not need to worry if you can not get something working.
:-) That would be ideal. However, I'm looking to change horses because the documents I am already producing (newsletters for local groups (all volunteer)) are straining at what LaTeX wants me to do. So, I've been contemplating whether I should move "up" the abstraction ladder to ConTeXt or "down" to plain TeX and really learn to build the world from boxes and glue. :-) I'd rather move up. :-) :-)
(IIRC, Hans is also a core team member of LuaTeX, so perhaps I should just suck it up with LaTeX until LuaTeX is viable?)
LuaTeX is not a replacement for LaTeX. It is a replacement for pdfTeX. ... pending feature requests getting implemented. So, if you are planning on switching to context, there is no real need to wait for luatex.
OK. Wasn't sure...
HTH, Aditya
Yes, it did/does, thank you! --Doug