Basics

Here you find the Basics of ConTeXt document structure and text formatting (because paragraphs, emphasis, verbatims, quotes... also contributes to the structure of your documents).

If it can help, there is a Dictionary of typographical terms. There is also an few reference about the History of TeX (2007, it would benefit from an update).

• Document structure

  ConTeXt Projects

  • Project structure: How to split up content and setup.
  • Modes: Conditional processing of document

  Titles, Headings, and Sections

  • Titles: sectioning and formatting
  • Table of Contents

  Page Structure

  • Headers and Footers
  • Footnotes, endnotes, and related notes.

  Structure-Related Lists

  • Registers: Indexes and other similar word lists.
  • Bibliography: Referenced documents and in-text citations.

  Referencing

  • References: Automatically referring to pages and labels.
  • PDF Bookmarks and Headers

• Text formatting

  Basic Text Formatting

  • Font Switching, to change font styles (bold, italic, capitalizing, underline, etc.)
  • Indentation
  • Text in Columns
  • Color
  • Verbatim text
  • Quotes
  • Framed
  • Verse
  • Initials (dropped caps, dropcaps)
  • Symbols
  • Delimiter to forced linebreak

  Structured Text

  • Enumerations: Itemizations, itemized lists, and bulleted lists.
    • User-Defined Enumerations: Defining a new numbering scheme.
  • Descriptions: Lists with text labels, such as definitions.
  • Cross Referencing: Inline text referencing.
  • Paragraph Enumeration: Numbered paragraphs.
  • Paragraph Referencing: Number all paragraphs for referencing usage
  • Tables: Different ways to create tables in ConTeXt.

More advanced Text Formatting

TODO: Warning: to be structured. (See: To-Do List)

• Cropping text
• Graphical text manipulation
• TextBackground (includes underlining)
• Specially Shaped paragraphs
• Widows and orphans control
• Paragraph last line control
• autoinsertnextspace
• setuplocalinterlinespace