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Bill Meahan | 15 Jun 2012 18:24
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ConTeXt support?

Current support for ConTeXt is pretty minimal in 11.86 (especially 
compared to LaTeX support). Is this likely to change any time soon?

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David Kastrup | 15 Jun 2012 18:50
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Re: ConTeXt support?

Bill Meahan <wmeahan94 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Current support for ConTeXt is pretty minimal in 11.86 (especially
> compared to LaTeX support). Is this likely to change any time soon?

No.  Code does not tend to change by itself.

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Bill Meahan | 15 Jun 2012 18:56
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Re: ConTeXt support?

On 06/15/2012 12:50, David Kastrup wrote:
> Bill Meahan<wmeahan94 <at> gmail.com>  writes:
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>> Current support for ConTeXt is pretty minimal in 11.86 (especially
>> compared to LaTeX support). Is this likely to change any time soon?
>
> No.  Code does not tend to change by itself.
>

Such a wonderfully helpful answer. Such a fine example of FOSS attitude.

Thank you for deigning to answer my question.

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David Kastrup | 15 Jun 2012 21:47
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Re: ConTeXt support?

Bill Meahan <wmeahan94 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On 06/15/2012 12:50, David Kastrup wrote:
>> Bill Meahan<wmeahan94 <at> gmail.com>  writes:
>>
>>> Current support for ConTeXt is pretty minimal in 11.86 (especially
>>> compared to LaTeX support). Is this likely to change any time soon?
>>
>> No.  Code does not tend to change by itself.
>>
>
> Such a wonderfully helpful answer. Such a fine example of FOSS attitude.

I am sure you did much more for Free Software than I ever did, entitling
you to bashing me for telling you the state of Context support in
AUCTeX.

Your web page tells that you have a considerable computing back ground.
It does not mention the Free Software projects to which you have
contributed so far.  Given your qualifications, it would seem quite
within your reach to work on the rather rudimentary Context support in
AUCTeX.

> Thank you for deigning to answer my question.

It is a joy working for people showing such an amount of appreciation
for years of volunteer work from which they were able to profit.

Thanks for your feedback and the friendly words you found.
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Werner LEMBERG | 16 Jun 2012 00:30
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>>> Current support for ConTeXt is pretty minimal in 11.86 (especially
>>> compared to LaTeX support). Is this likely to change any time
>>> soon?
>>
>> No.  Code does not tend to change by itself.
>>
> 
> Such a wonderfully helpful answer. Such a fine example of FOSS
> attitude.

What answer do you expect?  David's reply above is (a) informative,
(b) concise, and (c) funny.  As he rightly states in another email,
everything is volunteer's work, so it's *you* who could improve
ConTeXt support, for example, by delivering well written bug reports.

    Werner
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David Kastrup | 16 Jun 2012 08:47
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Re: ConTeXt support?

Werner LEMBERG <wl <at> gnu.org> writes:

>>>> Current support for ConTeXt is pretty minimal in 11.86 (especially
>>>> compared to LaTeX support). Is this likely to change any time
>>>> soon?
>>>
>>> No.  Code does not tend to change by itself.
>>>
>> 
>> Such a wonderfully helpful answer. Such a fine example of FOSS
>> attitude.
>
> What answer do you expect?  David's reply above is (a) informative,
> (b) concise, and (c) funny.  As he rightly states in another email,
> everything is volunteer's work, so it's *you* who could improve
> ConTeXt support, for example, by delivering well written bug reports.

He was complaining about the extent of Context support, and there are
not really currently active developers for most parts of AUCTeX.  If
anything non-trivial happens, it tends to be with LaTeX package support
these days.  It must have been years since anybody worked on Context
support.  So even a perfectly well-prepared bug report that focuses on a
missing feature or requires a minimum amount of Context knowledge is not
likely to meet much response these days.  As I said: code does not tend
to change by itself.

Free software has a lot of devoted friends (cf
<URL:http://www.online-literature.com/poe/176/>) that will develop a
moral view allowing themselves to tell others what "FOSS attitude" they
are supposed to have, but all the beautiful things about Free Software
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Berend de Boer | 20 Aug 2012 01:16
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Re: ConTeXt support?

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:

    David> So even a perfectly well-prepared bug report that focuses
    David> on a missing feature or requires a minimum amount of
    David> Context knowledge is not likely to meet much response these
    David> days.  As I said: code does not tend to change by itself.

A bit late to the party, but such bug reports will receive attention.

Patches are even more welcome!

Obviously the context code works for me, so that's why there is not
much change.

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