Hello, what you can do is: get a local copy of all manuals and then there is a small program available called docsearcher (is written in java, so it should run on all platforms) http://sourceforge.net/projects/docsearcher/ I don't use it on the manuals, because after some time you know which one could contain a solution for your problem. But it is nice when you have a lot of literature in pdf format. It is also also a nice solution to use googles advanced search options, where you can limit the search on a specified location. Wolfgang Jérôme Laurens schrieb:

Hi (bis)

I'd like to share my newbie experience about tables.

With iPages, the ''fabulous, marvelous, amazing, simple" word processor from apple, It took me more or less half an hour to design and fill a table, with fixed width colored cells and so on. Unfortunately, once I saved the document, iPages could no longer open it anymore... :-( I then spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour) to try to repair things... with no success.

With ConTeXt, I spent a pair of pair of hours (minus half an hour) trying to design my table, and less than half an hour to fill it. Now the work is complete. :-)

But I am not really satisfied, I feel frustrated because I have the impression that it took me too much time. It appears that neither texshow nor garden did help me. So I digged into standard Google, and it pointed me to the context mailing list archive, finally pointing me to the name of the right manual at pragma ADE. Fortunately, this up-to-date manual was online .

Once, my work was complete, I understood that the Google search on context garden wiki was limited to context garden... I then found that some information I was missing about tables was on the context garden tabulate page...:-/ But I have the impression that the manuals do contain much more than available on contextgarden.

So, is it possible to have the Google search engine at context garden also look into the manuals?

Moreover, how do you formulate a request in standard google? Adding the "ConTeXt" key word does not lead to accurate results.

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So, is it possible to have the Google search engine at context garden also look into the manuals?

Not that I know of. If somebody could give me a hint (google-link), I can put these in. Until there is a combined search on contextgarden, you can go to http://articles.contextgarden.net and search through all manuals. Or use 'spotlight' on your Mac :)

I don't know that much about web-server administration, but I think it should somehow possible to incluce "lucene" into apache and to use it for indexing pdf files. http://lucene.apache.org/ Wolfgang

Jérôme Laurens wrote:

So, is it possible to have the Google search engine at context garden also look into the manuals?

As far as I know, there is no option in google to look to more than one domain at once. It means that you can only search on: - only contextgarden.net - only pragma-ade.com - on the whole www at once, but not at both contextgarden and pragma at once. However, if you use the google frame integrated into contextgarden, you can choose between four options where to search (in the second step): contextgarden. pragma, ctan or "everywhere". Try it. There is a documentation mirrored on contextgarden (http://mirror.contextgarden.net/overview.htm), but it's intentionally not indexed by google. Perhaps searching the manuals is the only good reason why it would partially make sense to let google index their content on contextgarden.net as well. Perhaps there is some workaround / some elgant way to add only the manuals to the "allow" section of mirror.contextgarden.net/robots.txt, while still somehow "preventing" people to refer to the mirrored documentation instead to the original one. (If there's a note on every page of mirror.contextgarden.net pointing to the original site or something similar ...) I'm not sure if I would do that, but if Hans/Patrick find a good way to do so, ... To Jérôme: as a newbie (as you claim it) you have a great opportunity to contribute to the wiki from your point of view and improve the page with tables. Mojca