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Welcome to ConTeXt garden

This is a wiki for the ConTeXt document processing system which is a TeX macro package created and maintained by Pragma ADE. Here you may explore documentations, examples, and tips related to ConTeXt.

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• About this wiki
• ConTeXt blog
• How to edit wiki pages
• Feature requests for this Wiki
• Resources on the web
• ConTeXt Mailing Lists: Archives at ConTeXt garden, mailman interface and gmane
• Related Programs and Tools

News

ConTeXt user meeting

The Second International ConTeXt User Meeting has taken place in Bohinj (Triglav National Park) in Slovenia from 20th-25th of August 2008. Most slides are available on the page, recordings of the talks to come soon.

Getting Started

Introduction

• What is ConTeXt?
• Try ConTeXt online
• License and Read Me notes

Installation and First Documents

• Installation
• First Document | Second Step | Next Steps: A quick introduction to how ConTeXt works.
• Longer hello-world document

Using Mark IV

• Mark IV Introduction
• Install Mark IV
• Running Mark IV in TeXLive 2008

Documentation

Official ConTeXt documentations

• Context, an excursion: beginner's manual. (Translations)
• The user manual
• MetaFun manual for MetaPost and the MetaFun extension

• MK IV reference
• LuaTeX documentation

• Documented source code or browse source code
• ConTeXt command reference

NOTE: We are working on updating the user manual.

The current draft is available at a svn repository. Currently the fonts and typography chapters of the manual have been redone.

Specific Subjects

• Structurals: Titles, tables, enumerations, and other pieces of document structure.
• Visuals: Layout, graphics, fonts, and other aspects of the document's appearance.
• Inside ConTeXt: Macros, commands, and other programming.
• Math: Mathematics and other scientific notations.
• XML: ConTeXt can be used to format XML text or documents.
• Presentations: Specific advice for presentations and on-screen display.

Tips and Tricks

• The ConTeXt Way: The ConTeXt philosophy.
• From LaTeX to ConTeXt: Particular tricks that are useful for moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt.
• HTML and ConTeXt: Collaborative HTML document preparation using Wiki and its conversion to ConTeXt using Ruby.
• TeX and pdfeTeX: Non-ConTeXt specific page about TeX and pdfeTeX
• Posting on arxiv.org: How to submit ConTeXt documents to http://arxiv.org/, the worldwide, heavily used physics (and now mathematics and computer science) open-access preprint server.