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Revision as of 14:41, 8 June 2020
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
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- ConTeXt Projects
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- Project structure How to split up content and setup.
- Modes Conditional processing of document
- Titles, Headings, and Sections
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- Titles: sectioning and formatting
- Table of Contents
- Page Structure
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- Headers and Footers
- Footnotes, endnotes, and related notes.
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- Structure-Related Lists
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- Registers: Indexes and other similar word lists.
- Bibliography: Referenced documents and in-text citations.
- Referencing
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- References: Automatically referring to pages and labels.
- PDF Bookmarks and Headers
- Cross Referencing: Inline text referencing.
Text formatting
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- Basic Text Formatting
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- Font Switching, to change font styles (bold, italic, capitalizing, underline, etc.)
- Indentation
- Columns
- Color
- Verbatim text
- Quotes
- Framed
- Verse
- Initials (dropped caps, dropcaps)
- Symbols
- Delimiter to forced linebreak
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- Structured Text
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- Enumerations: Itemizations, itemized lists, and bulleted lists.
- Descriptions: Lists with text labels, such as definitions.
- Paragraph Enumeration: Numbered paragraphs.
- Paragraph Referencing: Number all paragraphs for referencing usage
- Tables: Different ways to create tables in ConTeXt.
Further reading
A page is used to centralized Sample documents.
- Advanced Document structure
- Advanced Text formatting
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- Visual Debugging can facilitate tweaking text formatting
- Hyphenation
- Faking characters
- Compound words
- Cropping text
- Scaling Rotating Mirroring Clipping
- TextBackground (includes underlining)
- Specially Shaped paragraphs
- Widows and orphans control
- Paragraph last line control
- autoinsertnextspace
- setuplocalinterlinespace
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TODO: try to follow the structure of part 1 to help orientation. (See: To-Do List) |
