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Revision as of 15:54, 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.
- URL: typesetting of URLs references.
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
- Unexpected behavior
- If ConTeXt appears to behave in a counterintuitive way, chances are that it’s actually your intuitions that lack calibration.
- Visual Debugging
- can facilitate tweaking text formatting
- Sample documents
- a page is used to centralized, but there is also a dedicated category (should mostly match).
- Advanced Document structure
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- Hiding Content
- Makeup, allowing for custom and temporary header & footer sections.
- Advanced Text formatting
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TODO: try to follow the structure of part 1 to help orientation. (See: To-Do List) |
