On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 12:40 PM, N. Raghavendra
I am a mathematician, and have been using LaTeX on a daily basis since 1992, when I was a graduate student. I have recently started using ConTeXt, and am very happy with the facilities it provides, and with its self-contained system which does not require one to load external packages with subtle interactions.
One problem that I am facing is that the documentation of ConTeXt is often not enough for me to figure out what to do when a problem arises. I understand that documentation is perhaps not a priority for the project. As Hans Hagen wrote in `? Context',
"... writing can get a lower priority in a time when quick and dirty answers can be found on the internet, mailing list or wiki. ... For what it's worth: whenever I have to solve a problem with a program (or language implementation) I run into cases where I have to look long to find (non conflicting) information. It just comes with the problems one wants to solve and TeX (ConTeXt) is not different."
However, there is not a great deal of information on the Internet about solving ConTeXt problems. Whenever I ran into a LaTeX problem in the last several years, I used to find a solution, or a substantial step towards one, that was already documented on the TeX-LaTeX Stack Exchange. Unfortunately, it does not contain a similar amount of information about ConTeXt. In any case, I have started posting ConTeXt questions there, see https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/397463/146025 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/397607/146025
These are the resources that I have found very useful: 0)interface files tex/texmf-context/tex/context/interface/mkiv 1) test suite cont-tst.7z http://www.pragma-ade.nl/download-1.htm 2) sources of the pdf of the standalone, tex/texmf-context/doc/context/sources/general 3) sources of modules tex/texmf-context/tex/context/modules 4) source code of mkiv tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv 5) the archives of emails https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/ The ml is ok of course, but at some point you will develop your own style of doing things, and probably you will encapsulate it into a module. -- luigi