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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.

• About this wiki (operating 1,295 articles)
• ConTeXt group

• Resources on the web
• Mailing Lists: Archives at ConTeXt garden, mailman interface and gmane
• There is an IRC channel #context at freenode
• FAQ (Frequently asked questions)
• Related Programs and Tools
• Humour

News

The 10th ConTeXt Meeting will take place on September 25-October 1, 2016 at Het Doevehuis in Kalenberg, about 35 km from Hasselt, the Netherlands. More details to follow.

The ConTeXt Group accepts now Bitcoin donations: easy, fast and almost no fees! Address: 1HjvRV7ZR37kLDt4DHXijram2WjFGpDLiU

The 9th ConTeXt Meeting took place on September 14–18, 2015 at the Ferme Equestre de Monts d'Aubrac in Nasbinals towards the center-south of France (about 1½ hours south of Clermont-Ferrand).

Documentation

Official ConTeXt documentation

• ConTeXt reference manual. This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date general manual, covering everything except the various experimental mechanisms.
• ConTeXt, an excursion (1999) by Ton Otten and Hans Hagen (169 pages). This manual is also available in Dutch and Czech. Despite being 12 years old, it is still eminently usable.
• The MetaFun manual, describing MetaPost, the MetaFun format, and ConTeXt.
• Command reference on this wiki
• The ConTeXt command list is auto-generated. It lists commands and their parameters, but does not describe them.
• List of ConTeXt manuals
• Dictionary of typographical terms

Physical books

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

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.
• Sample documents
• 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 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