Am Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:07:32 +0200 schrieb Gerben Wierda:
My estimate would be that a complete context reference with well-described options and including trivial examples would require cca. 10.000-50.000 pages.
If a tool needs 50.000 pages to document its use, you are in trouble (in more ways than one).
Well imho the LaTeX-documentations could add up easily to this number, probably more: e.g. source3 has more then 700 pages, tikz more than 1000, etc. So imho Mojca's estimate is probably quite sound. But naturally such a reference is not the same as an introductionary book like the latex guide or the latex companion. Such books have to select and layout their informations -- and if it weren't possible to write such a book about context then you are in trouble.
I would immediately buy any book that explains ConTeXt such as the books that are there for LaTeX. But then, LaTeX is moribund and doesn’t change at all. An easier target.
As you wrote in a later posting: many books about latex are in parts outdated as they couldn't keep up with the development e.g. of tikz, biblatex, expl3 etc. So I don't see how you can claim that "latex doesn't change at all". Beside this I don't believe that context is changing so much that it would be impossible to write a book about it: I doubt that all the people who uses context in their daily work would like it if they had to adapt their document regularly to some new syntax. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/