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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
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 is user documentation focusing on one specific topic. Below is a list of current My Ways. There is a wiki page on How to make a MyWay. (The page is a copy of the the original PDF.)
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Advanced Font Topics
- 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
- 2005 - Greek in Proper ConTeXt by Thomas A. Schmitz
- 2005 - Installing Expert Fonts: Minion Pro by Idris Samawi Hamid
- Adam Lindsay, files mirrored on the garden:
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New Features in ConTeXt
(not described in manuals)
- Using \startalign by Aditya Mahajan
- Extensible Arrows in ConTeXt by Aditya Mahajan
- Display Math in ConTeXt by Aditya Mahajan. Contains a comparison of ConTeXt math capabilities with various latex math features.
- Creating Tables using CSV (Comma-separated values) by Mojca Miklavec, see also m-database
- \sometxt: some nice techniques for placing text labels on graphics by Mojca Miklavec
Others
- Use of natural tables by Willi Egger