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Sorry. By mistake I sent the message as a reply to another one, when in fact I was trying to start a new thread with it. I'm sending it again (I think I'll do it right now): --------------------------------------------- Good morning to everyone. Although I guess it will not be of interest to most of the list members, I wanted to communicate that I have written an introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV in Spanish, which can be downloaded at https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX.pdf. Its title is "An Introduction (not too short) to ConTeXt Mark IV". ConTeXt is a wonderful document composition system, but there is not much literature to help you get into it, hence my initiative. The problem is that I've only been using ConTeXt for a short time and still have many doubts, so it's possible that the introduction may contain errors. As it has been written in Spanish I don't think many of you will be able to read it, but I would appreciate, of course, any suggestions for improvement. The document is, on the other hand, free and anyone who wants to include it in any ConTeXt distribution can, of course, do so. Also, if anyone wants the source files, I have no problem providing them. I have not based my introduction on LMTX because I think that for beginners a more stable system, like LuaTeX, is preferable. Finally, I apologize for my bad English level. I read it reasonably well, but expressing myself in it is much harder for me. -- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia
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Hi, Joaquín.
I've just found your introduction yesterday and I have to say it is a
pleasure to read it. I can help you with some areas you haven't discussed
too much, e.g. Lua interfaces and Metapost (well, I'm not as skilled as
Aditya or Hans in the latter), as I use it often. I'll send you a message
later so we can communicate in Spanish :)
Thank you a lot for you effort. I hope more Spanish users put a bit of
their expertise on your manual and further documentation for such a great
software as ConTeXt.
Muchas gracias y saludos cordiales,
Jairo :D
El mar., 13 de oct. de 2020 11:27 p. m., Joaquín Ataz López
Sorry. By mistake I sent the message as a reply to another one, when in fact I was trying to start a new thread with it. I'm sending it again (I think I'll do it right now):
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Good morning to everyone.
Although I guess it will not be of interest to most of the list members, I wanted to communicate that I have written an introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV in Spanish, which can be downloaded at https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX.pdf. Its title is "An Introduction (not too short) to ConTeXt Mark IV".
ConTeXt is a wonderful document composition system, but there is not much literature to help you get into it, hence my initiative. The problem is that I've only been using ConTeXt for a short time and still have many doubts, so it's possible that the introduction may contain errors. As it has been written in Spanish I don't think many of you will be able to read it, but I would appreciate, of course, any suggestions for improvement. The document is, on the other hand, free and anyone who wants to include it in any ConTeXt distribution can, of course, do so. Also, if anyone wants the source files, I have no problem providing them.
I have not based my introduction on LMTX because I think that for beginners a more stable system, like LuaTeX, is preferable.
Finally, I apologize for my bad English level. I read it reasonably well, but expressing myself in it is much harder for me.
-- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia
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Thank you very much. This is an offer that I accept, although, if it's not a bother, from next month, because the next two weeks I will be tremendously busy with my university work, which has nothing to do with typography or text composition. El 14/10/20 a las 7:27, Jairo A. del Rio escribió:
Hi, Joaquín.
I've just found your introduction yesterday and I have to say it is a pleasure to read it. I can help you with some areas you haven't discussed too much, e.g. Lua interfaces and Metapost (well, I'm not as skilled as Aditya or Hans in the latter), as I use it often. I'll send you a message later so we can communicate in Spanish :) Thank you a lot for you effort. I hope more Spanish users put a bit of their expertise on your manual and further documentation for such a great software as ConTeXt.
Muchas gracias y saludos cordiales, Jairo :D
El mar., 13 de oct. de 2020 11:27 p. m., Joaquín Ataz López
mailto:jal@um.es> escribió: Sorry. By mistake I sent the message as a reply to another one, when in fact I was trying to start a new thread with it. I'm sending it again (I think I'll do it right now):
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Good morning to everyone.
Although I guess it will not be of interest to most of the list members, I wanted to communicate that I have written an introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV in Spanish, which can be downloaded at https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX.pdf. Its title is "An Introduction (not too short) to ConTeXt Mark IV".
ConTeXt is a wonderful document composition system, but there is not much literature to help you get into it, hence my initiative. The problem is that I've only been using ConTeXt for a short time and still have many doubts, so it's possible that the introduction may contain errors. As it has been written in Spanish I don't think many of you will be able to read it, but I would appreciate, of course, any suggestions for improvement. The document is, on the other hand, free and anyone who wants to include it in any ConTeXt distribution can, of course, do so. Also, if anyone wants the source files, I have no problem providing them.
I have not based my introduction on LMTX because I think that for beginners a more stable system, like LuaTeX, is preferable.
Finally, I apologize for my bad English level. I read it reasonably well, but expressing myself in it is much harder for me.
-- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:27:30AM +0200, Joaquín Ataz López wrote:
Sorry. By mistake I sent the message as a reply to another one, when in fact I was trying to start a new thread with it. I'm sending it again (I think I'll do it right now):
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Good morning to everyone.
Although I guess it will not be of interest to most of the list members, I wanted to communicate that I have written an introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV in Spanish, which can be downloaded at https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX.pdf. Its title is "An Introduction (not too short) to ConTeXt Mark IV".
ConTeXt is a wonderful document composition system, but there is not much literature to help you get into it, hence my initiative. The problem is that I've only been using ConTeXt for a short time and still have many doubts, so it's possible that the introduction may contain errors. As it has been written in Spanish I don't think many of you will be able to read it, but I would appreciate, of course, any suggestions for improvement. The document is, on the other hand, free and anyone who wants to include it in any ConTeXt distribution can, of course, do so. Also, if anyone wants the source files, I have no problem providing them.
I have not based my introduction on LMTX because I think that for beginners a more stable system, like LuaTeX, is preferable.
Finally, I apologize for my bad English level. I read it reasonably well, but expressing myself in it is much harder for me.
-- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia
Holà, Joaquín, thank you for your nice and well done introduction! It is really more than a simple introduction. "Mucho trabajo", is that good Spanish? :-) Even when one doesn't read Spanish fluently, it is very useful! Rudolf
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El 14/10/20 a las 11:51, Rudolf Bahr escribió:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:27:30AM +0200, Joaquín Ataz López wrote:
Sorry. By mistake I sent the message as a reply to another one, when in fact I was trying to start a new thread with it. I'm sending it again (I think I'll do it right now):
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Good morning to everyone.
Although I guess it will not be of interest to most of the list members, I wanted to communicate that I have written an introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV in Spanish, which can be downloaded at https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX.pdf. Its title is "An Introduction (not too short) to ConTeXt Mark IV".
ConTeXt is a wonderful document composition system, but there is not much literature to help you get into it, hence my initiative. The problem is that I've only been using ConTeXt for a short time and still have many doubts, so it's possible that the introduction may contain errors. As it has been written in Spanish I don't think many of you will be able to read it, but I would appreciate, of course, any suggestions for improvement. The document is, on the other hand, free and anyone who wants to include it in any ConTeXt distribution can, of course, do so. Also, if anyone wants the source files, I have no problem providing them.
I have not based my introduction on LMTX because I think that for beginners a more stable system, like LuaTeX, is preferable.
Finally, I apologize for my bad English level. I read it reasonably well, but expressing myself in it is much harder for me.
-- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia
Holà, Joaquín,
thank you for your nice and well done introduction! It is really more than a simple introduction. "Mucho trabajo", is that good Spanish? :-) Of course yours is "good Spanish". Thank you very much for the compliments. Even when one doesn't read Spanish fluently, it is very useful!
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Good evening Joaquin, first of all congratulations for your initiative, this is really an impressive piece of work! Without wanting to critisize I think, that in general MKIV documents should be made up with \start”elment” … \stop”element”. This will be important for all those, who also need to produce xml. I encountred two things in your book: page 96 at the bottom. You write that the “height” is header + headerdistance + textheight + bottomdistance + bottom. This should be footerdistance and footer. — The graphic showing the areas however is correct. page 139 at the top: \chapter[title=…,reference=..]. This should be \startchapter[title=…,reference=…] … \stopchapter Again, thank you for all your work! — Sorry “no hablo Espaniol”… Saludos cordiales Willi
On 14 Oct 2020, at 06:27, Joaquín Ataz López
wrote: Sorry. By mistake I sent the message as a reply to another one, when in fact I was trying to start a new thread with it. I'm sending it again (I think I'll do it right now):
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Good morning to everyone.
Although I guess it will not be of interest to most of the list members, I wanted to communicate that I have written an introduction to ConTeXt Mark IV in Spanish, which can be downloaded at https://webs.um.es/jal/docs/introCTX.pdf. Its title is "An Introduction (not too short) to ConTeXt Mark IV".
ConTeXt is a wonderful document composition system, but there is not much literature to help you get into it, hence my initiative. The problem is that I've only been using ConTeXt for a short time and still have many doubts, so it's possible that the introduction may contain errors. As it has been written in Spanish I don't think many of you will be able to read it, but I would appreciate, of course, any suggestions for improvement. The document is, on the other hand, free and anyone who wants to include it in any ConTeXt distribution can, of course, do so. Also, if anyone wants the source files, I have no problem providing them.
I have not based my introduction on LMTX because I think that for beginners a more stable system, like LuaTeX, is preferable.
Finally, I apologize for my bad English level. I read it reasonably well, but expressing myself in it is much harder for me.
-- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia
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Thank you very much for your comments. I will take them in consideration and, along with others that are sent to me, I will prepare a version 1.5 of the guide. As my introduction, being written in Spanish, excludes many members from the list, from now on, and in order not to bore too much those who are not interested in this matter, I will answer the mails related to my introduction exclusively to the sender, and not to the list, unless I think the matter is of more general interest. Thank you all very much for the good reception of my introduction. I already said that it would certainly have errors, I am a beginner at ConTeXt. El 15/10/20 a las 23:25, Willi Egger escribió:
Good evening Joaquin,
first of all congratulations for your initiative, this is really an impressive piece of work!
Without wanting to critisize I think, that in general MKIV documents should be made up with \start”elment” … \stop”element”. This will be important for all those, who also need to produce xml.
I encountred two things in your book:
page 96 at the bottom. You write that the “height” is header + headerdistance + textheight + bottomdistance + bottom. This should be footerdistance and footer. — The graphic showing the areas however is correct.
page 139 at the top: \chapter[title=…,reference=..]. This should be \startchapter[title=…,reference=…] … \stopchapter
Again, thank you for all your work! — Sorry “no hablo Espaniol”…
Saludos cordiales
-- Joaquín Ataz López Derecho Civil Universidad de Murcia
participants (5)
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Jairo A. del Rio
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Jan U. Hasecke
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Joaquín Ataz López
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Rudolf Bahr
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Willi Egger