Hello everyone.
I have a question for Hans: will Hraban's book deal with specialist issues or will it be, so to speak, a general manual on LMTX?
Thank you in advance
Tommaso
On 9/24/2024 9:14 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> There are some introductions linked in https://wiki.contextgarden.net/
> Documentation
>
> Manuals written for MkIV still apply to LMTX, even if there are
> sometimes better alternatives to some constructs.
>
> I don’t think plain TeX literature like Knuth’s TeXbook or Eikhout’s TeX
> by topic makes sense for a beginner, depending on what you want to do.
Well, but one gets the idea by looking at it.
> It makes no sense to try to learn ConTeXt on the dry; choose a project
> and overcome its problems one after the other. If you don’t have an
> application for TeX, you don’t need to learn it. What do you want to
> achieve?
https://github.com/contextgarden/not-so-short-introduction-to-context
and Hrabans upcoming book (finished when we stop adding functionality)
There is also Mikaels stepwise tutorial.
Hans
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