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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.

• About this wiki (operating 1,105 articles)
• ConTeXt blog
• ConTeXt group

• Resources on the web
• Mailing Lists: Archives at ConTeXt garden, mailman interface and gmane
• FAQ (Frequently asked questions)
• Related Programs and Tools
• Humour

News

• December 2010: New context.deb package for debian
• July 2011: TeX Live 2011 released, including current ConTeXt.
• October-November 2011: The garden is migrating to a new server...

Revision of ConTeXt User Manual

User feedback is appreciated on these new chapters:

• Chapter on typography
• Chapter on fonts
• Chapter on pagedesign

ConTeXt user meetings

Getting Started

Documentation

Books

• MkII, MkIV, the history of LuaTeX
• Metafun Manual
• Layouts in ConTeXt
• Fonts in ConTeXt

Official ConTeXt documentations

• Context, an excursion by Ton Otten and Hans Hagen (169 Pages) (screen) (print) (Translations)
• The user manual (screen) (print) (being revised)
• command reference as Wiki or pdf file (lua based)
• detailed list of ConTeXt manuals
• Dictionary on typographical terms

Specific Subjects

• document structure like titles, tables, enumerations...
• Visuals: Layout, graphics, fonts, and other aspects of the document's appearance.
• Mathematics and other scientific notations.
• XML: ConTeXt can be used to format XML text or documents.
• presentations and on-screen display.
• PDF/X compatible documents (Mark IV only).
• bibliographies

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.
• Version Control: Getting version control specific information in ConTeXt
• 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.

Development

Documentation

• Inside ConTeXt: Macros, commands, and other programming.
• MK IV implementation reports
• LuaTeX documentation
• Documentation of the source code
• The Release Notes page documents what has changed in each new release

Source code

• The Current and Beta versions
• Git repo and it's mirror
• ConTeXt source browser (why outdated?)

Comment: There is no offical repository there the development is going. The source code is released irregularly and placed at the http://www.pragma-ade.com website. The git and source browser repositories are updated by a script from the Current and Beta versions of the source code.

Bug tracker

• ConTeXt and LuaTeX
• ConTeXt minimal distribution installation scripts