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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.

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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 Third International ConTeXt User Meeting will take place in The Hague in The Netherlands on August 31 upto September 4, 2009.

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

Installation and First Documents

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

Using Mark IV

Documentation

Official ConTeXt documentations

Context, an excursion: beginner's manual. (Translations)
The user manual (being revised, see below)
MetaFun manual (screen) for MetaPost and the MetaFun extension

A detailed list of ConTeXt manuals

Revision of ConTeXt User Manual

We are working on updating the user manual. User feedback is appreciated.

svn repository of current draft
Chapter on typography
Chapter on fonts

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.
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.