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Revision of ConTeXt User Manual

User feedback is appreciated on these new chapters:

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

Call for meeting submissions

This year Hans and Taco decided that it would be wise to focus a bit on documentation issues. The informal theme is therefore:

ConTeXt typesetting documentation, teach as we preach

See the Meeting Website for more information.

ConTeXt user meeting

Getting Started

Documentation

Official ConTeXt documentations

• Context, an excursion: beginner's manual. (screen) (print) (Translations)

• The user manual (screen) (print) (being revised, see below)

• Metafun manual (screen) (print) for MetaPost and the MetaFun extension

• MK IV implementation reports
• LuaTeX documentation

• Documented source code or browse source code
• ConTeXt command reference or a list of commands and options

• A detailed list of ConTeXt manuals

• The Release Notes page documents what has changed in each new release

• A nice overview of pdf file

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.
• PDFX: How to create PDF/X compatible documents (Mark IV only).

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.