Hi, Gour wrote:
Russell> As a tech writer for almost 30 years, and someone just getting Russell> into Context, i am sorry to hear that was a joke!
Just see the sad affair of Context's docs so that the 'book' is topic for the April's 1st joke. :-(
If it wouldn't be so sad, it would be funny...
Personally, I think it is a sad joke that I started a community project to update the reference manual after a lot of complaints about the documentation but over four years down the road the actual community turns out to have a population closely approximating one.
At the moment I'm looking to learn jQuery and, rest assured, there are several books to choose from.
If you could convince mozilla to adopt ConTeXt, I am sure there would be a lot of books within half a year. Have a closer look on books on 'hot topics' like jQuery and you'll see that almost none of these books are written by the inventors themselves. Granted, often the first (and sometimes the best) books are by the inventors, but the *number* of books on a subject just gives an indication of the book market size, nothing more.
However, when I ask somewhere about the support for ConTeXt I'm getting answers like: "This is the project which has only 5 or 6 users. Who actually uses it? Use LaTeX!" :-(
The availability of ConTeXt books will not automatically create more users (nor even automatically create readers, for that matter).
This raises another concern and that is: what is the future of ConTeXt is Hans "get hit by the bus"? (Of course, we even do not want to think about it...)
The answer to this question is quite obvious if you have read Douglas Adams' books: the bus will think about the impact of its actions on the universe for a moment. Then, deeply immersed in gut-wrenching shame, it will travel back in time half a minute and push its own breaks for an emergency stop. Best wishes, Taco