Bug#144647: teTeX: Please help us with some context commands

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Dear Hans,

I'm a Debian developer working on the packages for teTeX in our
distribution. We would like to provide documentation in form of a man
page for every program we provide. There are some perl scripts in
ConTeXt that currently don't have a manpage, and are also not mentioned
in the available pdf files. Since I personally don't use ConTeXt, it is
hard for me to write these manpages. I tried, by looking at the
available ConTeXt documentation, but at some points I need some help. It
would be great if you could give me some hints.

Tobias Burnus has already helped me a lot, he wrote:

>
> texfont: Font installation util,
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexfont.pdf

I looked into this file, but mainly used the output of "texfont --help"
to create a manpage, and direct the user to the pdf. In the script some
mfont.pdf is mentioned - is this just an old name of mtexfont.pdf?

> texfind: A kind of grep with graphical output

I just discovered this, this looks very interesting. Unfortunately I
don't know much about perl, therefore I couldn't find out

- whether it accepts any commandline options, besides "--font" for the
  menu font

- how the search and replace stuff really works. I guess it also uses
  Perl regex syntax, and was able to do a replacement in the display
  window - but how can I save it to the file?

> fdf2tan: Convert PDF formular data (FDF) into something (Con)TeX(t)
> can handle
> fdf2tex: Dito. For both: Ask Hans for the details
> mptopdf: Convert a MetaPost file into a PDF (mpost file.mp creates a
> Postscript file which doesn't contain the fonts, therefore one has to
> run it through tex+dvips/pdftex using a tex file wrapper)
> makempy: Currently, I frankly don't remember the purpose of this script

I would very much appreciate if you could give me a one-liner for these
scripts, and/or direct me to some documentation.

> But the biggest omission is probably the ConTeXt manual which is
> incomplete, but nethertheless indispensible:
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf

I have asked Thomas Esser to include this.

Thank you very much in advance,
Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie