Many thanks for your reply. Hans Hagen writes: | leon wrote: | | >Hi guys, | > | >I'm starting to use conTeXt. And thanks for all those people encourage | >me in my last email. | > | >I read in various places that the pace of development is fast. I don't | >get a clue of what that means. As far as I know LaTeX hasn't been | >updated for over 3 years. So how fast is conTeXt being developed? The | >conTeXt manual dated 2001 since pretty old to me. Am I right? | > | > | sure, but it's only one of the many manuals ... more detailed manuals | came later; see website for more details | | (the texbook is older -) | | concerning development ... it's driven by what we need here, by what | users demand, and what is fun to implement | | Hans -- .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. . * . . /.\ Merry Christmas . . /..'\ . . /'.'\ -- Leon . . /.''.'\ . . /.'.'.\ . . /'.''.'.\ . . ^^^[_]^^^ . .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.

Many thanks, Mojca. It's very informative. Mojca Miklavec writes: | leon wrote: | > Hi guys, | > | > I read in various places that the pace of development is fast. I don't | > get a clue of what that means. | | See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Release_Notes. | | > As far as I know LaTeX hasn't been | > updated for over 3 years. So how fast is conTeXt being developed? The | > conTeXt manual dated 2001 since pretty old to me. Am I right? | | LaTeX has (almost) nothing to do with ConTeXt, but even LaTeX packages | are updated every now and then. | | Hans is coding so fast that he doesn't have enough time to document | everything ;) | Sure, the manual is somehow outdated: many new features are not yet | described there (perhaps in some other manual, on wiki, on the mailing | list archive, in the source or nowhere yet), but the manual is still | very useful - since ConTeXt is backward compatible and the most | important functionality was already there at that time, you can safely | use it. | | Mojca -- .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:. . * . . /.\ Merry Christmas . . /..'\ . . /'.'\ -- Leon . . /.''.'\ . . /.'.'.\ . . /'.''.'.\ . . ^^^[_]^^^ . .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:.