I agree, too. I have praised the "Excursion" before -- an excellent one-author work -- and if you also consult the "Manual" you can do a lot. For special questions, there is always Wolfgang ... On 3/5/10 1:50 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
On Mar 5, 2010, at 11:01 AM, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
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!
Hear hear! I couldn't agree more and am happy that a voice of reason appears in this somewhat meandering thread!
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.
also +1 Wasn't there this wonderful saying that a camel is a horse designed by committee?
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