On Wednesday 22 October 2008 09:13:20 Stephen A. Tjemkes wrote:
The single frustrating element of context is the documentation. I use context now for many years (not on a daily basis though) for writing journal papers, posters, presentations etc. I think it is a great package. and the community is very active in helping solving problems. But documentation is scattered in differnt pdf files, in different places. I am aware that writing good documentation (complete and self consistent) is time consuming and on first sight not rewarding.
The context manuals need to be updated and completed. The wiki is a good (dynamic) source of information, but this lacks the structuring of written manuals. I believe that people are working on this, both trying to structure the wiki as well as to revise the manuals, unless I am mistaken. Good documentation is a lot of work, but I believe that it is (almost) as important as good programming... My question to the mailing list: is this task structured? Is this being managed by anyone? Perhaps this was discussed at the User Meeting last August. I would have liked to participate (had I been available)...