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Easing into ConTeXt (ConTeXt 101) (view source)

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Added a minimal example to be used for testing purposes. TODO: add example logs and resulting file.

Whatever the reasons, '''you want to learn ConTeXt, but in an easy way'''. If it turns out that your local ConTeXt installation isn't working after all, you can do most things mentioned in [[http://live.contextgarden.net/ ConTeXt online]], although that one is still running an old version of ConTeXt (MkII/pdftex or XeTeX). If your own newish installation - which should be MkIV running LuaTeX - works, please use it so you get to profit from all the tips and tricks!

===Before you start===

Before you start working your way through this ConTeXt 101 course, test your installation with the following very minimalistic document. Make sure you use only standard ASCII characters (A-Z, a-z, period, comma, dash, question mark, exclamation mark) at this point.

Open the editor you use for ConTeXting, e.g. SciTe or TextMate. Write/copy the following into a new file and save the file as hello1.tex.

<pre>

\starttext

Hello, world!

\stoptext

</pre>

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