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General Wiki Comments

Spam problem

I don't know how to deal with spam on this wiki. Perhaps I could protect the main page, so spam is not the first thing you see. But then any change has to be proposed here or by mail to me. Any comments?

--pg 16:03, 4 May 2005 (CEST)

perhaps it's contrary to someone's ideal of what a wiki should be, but what about requiring a user to register in order to make changes? --Adam 01:49, 5 May 2005 (CEST)

that does not help: bots are clever enough to create an account (that happened last time) --pg

I would be happy for the front page to be restricted - shouldn't change so often anyway. Otherwise is there a possibility of having one of those human-only registration forms which requires typing the contents of a graphic, to stop the bots? I don't know how that might be implemented though. --Duncan 12:23, 5 May 2005 (CEST)

Right, I noticed that was a bot the last time, just after posting. Yeah, locking the main page would be another good step. Once I have my RSS client set up again, I can keep a closer watch on changes (again) so it's not just Patrick quashing the Spam. --Adam

OK, I have protected the main page. If you want to edit anything, please mail me, or put it here and I will paste it to the main page. pg


Comments on Main Page

Mojca recently asked (in the changelog) for comments on the reorganization of the Main Page. It looks quite good to me, overall. The "how to edit a Wiki page" should probably link to the existing Help:Editing page, or perhaps directly to MediaWiki's Help:Editing page.

I do think a couple of the section headings should be changed. "Tips, Tricks, and Hacks" is becoming a storehouse of actual documentation as well as just small "tricks", and the name should reflect that: something like "ConTeXt Documentation and How-To", maybe. "Help & Guidelines" should be "Wiki Help & Guidelines", so as to distinguish it from "ConTeXt help".

It may also be useful to put "short explanations" next to the links, much as I've been doing in the From LaTeX to ConTeXt page.

--Brooks 02:49, 4 Sep 2005 (UTC)


General ConTeXt Questions

(This should be moved to Talk:FAQ)


Is ConTeXt free (open source) software?

Does context support unicode, I cant display vietnamese in context output DVI?

  • Yes. It supports Unicode (utf-8) input. See Vietnamese. The process it describes does not do unicode-encoded output, so viewing the DVI stream won't do much good. With a properly-configured setup, the DVI viewer should get the right glyphs, but I haven't experimented with that configuration. I suggest sending mail to the mailing list. --Adam

  • Oh thanks for telling me that Mr.Adam, and I would like to ask you some more questions. I am a chemistry specialist, and I really want to use PPCHtex macro package for displaying chemical formulas. But the problem is I could not install context properly on my system, even I have read the construction in Pragma installation manual.Do people have any easier ways to install context in correct way? I love using context when I read the manual, but it is not easy to operate the whole system of Tex. Hopefully the developers will make a procedure which users can manage the system successfully.

Thanks so much and looking forward to know your answer----hoangoclan

  • Again, I refer you to the mailing list for usage specifics, if you can't find it here. As for installation, there is a lot of information in this wiki. I suggest typing 'Installation' into the search box at the left! You haven't given enough details about your system for me to offer anything further than that. Please, this is not the right place for these sorts of questions. --Adam