With ConTeXt there is, of course, the "excursion" (equiv. to (1)) and
the manual (2), but many important issues (the phantastic XML processing
capabilities, bibliography stuff, typography, font management,...) are
not quite complete or covered elsewhere (i.e. situation 3).
I totally agree. There are of course documents about the last topics you mention (not to talk about the mailing list, of course),
but they seems to need a more general introduction, at least for me. I'd like to have a book
covering all the aspects so that you a conceptual frame which unifies the whole stuff. Then, you can procede by yourself in
a more organized way.
By the way, a similar issue has been raised about SuperCollider, which in my esperience is similar for documentation to ConTeXt.
Many deep documents, a huge work by the developers, some good intro/tutorial, but no a complete book.
The situation has now evolved in a project about a SC book which has been submitted to MIT Press.
In any case, I cannot understand how people can go back to LaTeX, I mean from a user's perpsective. I'm a total ConTeXt ignorant but, just using setups, I've created A1 musical scores involving metapost and importing external files, A0 academic posters using layers so much better then powerpoint, an on-going book full of syntax colorized code...I just wouldn't started with LaTeX :-)
Best
-a-
Ulf
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