All: Alan comments below on my "aggressive" post. I apologize if it was seen that way. I am serious in my evaluation of ConTeXt, and my questions are quite serious as well. I cannot justify the effort in and cost of converting some 35 documents (many hundreds of pages) into a new format without an evaluation of the format and related tools. So, to restate my questions (potentially less aggressively), and in view of switching our entire technical documentation to ConTeXt: 1. Should I use mkii or mkiv? If mkii, then what should I plan on as schedule for upgrading? 2. Should I use context or texexec? As I understand, this is the same as asking whether to use pdftex or luatex. It may also be related to the mkii/mkiv issue, but I am less sure of that. 3. What *reference* material exists? I do not need a user guide. Right now it has been Google. However, the solutions most recently mentioned on the mailing lists seem to dead-end. I am fine with an answer of "see the source code" if that is really it. And I would still love a short, working example based on previous request. -Bryant -----Original Message----- From: Alan BRASLAU [mailto:alan.braslau@cea.fr] Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:01 AM To: Bryant Eastham; ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Page Numbering Hell On Wednesday 21 October 2009 16:24:47 Bryant Eastham wrote:
However, I find it interesting that in your response there was not a single real answer to any of my direct questions, nor a working
example
of what you admit should be a "simple matter".
I clearly wrote that I find the new structure code to be a bit confusing, and invited "experts" to answer your specific questions (also commented in my framework "example"):
% missing setups to: % 1. frontmatter pagenumbering conversion=romannumerals % 2. bodymatter pagenumbering "chapter-page" % 3. reset pagenumber for each chapter % 4. add blank pages if necessary to start chapters on odd pages. It should be simple, but I have not taken the time/not had the need to look into this. Perhaps someone can easily fill this in (that is if not put-off by the agressivity of the posting).
However, I believe that my original statements, which boil down to "This thing may be great, but it needs to be documented (or where is it documented?)", have been strengthened.
Look at http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Main_Page the paragraph on Documentation, and, in particular, the revision of the user manual. I, too, feel the great need for the updated manual. For this reason, I am trying to join the effort to bring forward its revision (to be done in my "spare time"). Writing good, complete documentation is hard! Alan