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ThisWay
A ThisWay is yet another attempt on documenting ConTeXt. They are also called magazines. The following magazines are available in the distribution:
- 2003 - Introduction : for what is ThisWay, how to write a MyWay
- 2003 - Hiding parts of section titles
- 2003 - Page Ranges : multi-page references
- 2003 - Pasting digits together : formatting numbers
- 2003 - Manipulating the foreground : combining PDF pages
- 2003 - Mixed Normal and Bold Math : see also Bold Math
- 2004 - A Few Dangerous Features : text effects, overprint/knockout colors
- 2004 - Faking Text and More : how to make fake text of black or colored boxes
- 2004 - Dealing with XML : typesetting XML documents using XSLT without TeX code
- 2005 - Using Platform Fonts : Installing True Type fonts (Verdana used as an example)
- 2005 - Good Looking Shapes : typesetting in shapes
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- 2007 - MkIV Goes Beta : how to get ConTeXt MkIV beta up and running
- 2011 - Project Structure : Project Structure, July 2011
- 2011 - Annotated Verbatim
- 2011 - Cross document referencing
- 2019 - New interfacing in MetaFun, a preview
- 2020 - Playing with boxes, a teaser
BTW: ThisWay are official Pragma documentation; if you write one yourself, call it My Way!
Nowadays articles are collected in documents of Development category.
MyWay
A My Way article is user documentation focusing on one specific topic. Below is a list of current My Way articles. In case you want to write a My Way article yourself, there is a wiki page on How to make a MyWay.
| Link | Year | Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| File:GreekInContext.pdf | 2005 | Greek in Proper ConTeXt | Thomas A. Schmitz |
| File:expertfonts.pdf | 2005 | Installing Expert Fonts: Minion Pro | Idris Samawi Hamid |
| File:NaturalTables.pdf | 2003 | Use of the natural table environment | Willi Egger |
| File:matharrows.pdf | 2006 | Extensible Arrows in ConTeXt | Aditya Mahajan |
| File:context-latex-math.pdf | 2006 | Display Math in ConTeXt -ConTeXt rehab for amsmath addicts | Aditya Mahajan |
| File:csv.pdf | 2006 | Creating Tables using CSV (Comma Separated Values). See also M-database | Mojca Miklavec |
| File:sometxt.pdf | 2007 | \sometxt, some nice techniques for placing text labels on graphics | Mojca Miklavec |
| File:xhtml.pdf | 2010 | Getting Web Content and pdf-Output from One Source | Thomas A. Schmitz. |
| File:Mathalign.pdf | 2010 | Using \startalign and friends in math | Aditya Mahajan |
| File:mathalign.pdf | 2006 | Using \startalign and friends in math | Aditya Mahajan |
Lost content ?
- Adam Lindsay, files mirrored on the garden:
- 2003 - Euler in ConTeXt - how to use the Euler math font, designed by Hermann Zapf
- 2003 - TeXFont beginner's document
- 2003 - OpenType and advanced typescripts in ConTeXt
- 2004 - Unicode Symbol support, with some hints on how to prepare an OpenType font for ConTeXt support
- 2004 - Mac Way: Apple Symbols that build on the Unicode support above, with actual files to install on MacOSX 10.3 systems
