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{{todo|may be merge here content from [[The ConTeXt Way]], [[Inside ConTeXt]], [[From LaTeX to ConTeXt]]}}
{{Getting started navbox}} [[Category:ConTeXt-IssuesBasics]]
→Text formatting: Minor grammar cleanup; slightly changed the "Delimiter" section so it mentions page breaks as well as line breaks
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Here you find the Basics of ConTeXt '''[[#Document_structure|document structure]]''' and '''[[#Text_formatting|text formatting]]''' (because paragraphs, emphasis, verbatims, quotes... , etc also contributes contribute to the structure of your documents).
If it can helphelps, there is a [[Dictionary]] of typographical terms. There is are also an a few reference about references to the [[History of TeX]] (2007, ); it would benefit from an update).
= Document structure =
:* [[Project structure]] How to split up content and setup.
:* [[Modes]] Conditional processing of document
; Titles, Headings, and Sections
:* [[Interaction#PDF_Bookmarks|PDF Bookmarks and Headers]]
:* [[Cross Referencing]]: Inline text referencing.
:* [[URL]]: typesetting of URLs references.
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; Basic Text Formatting
:* [[Font Switching]], to change font styles (bold, italic, capitalizing, underline, etc.)
:* [[Right_and_left|Alignment]]
:* [[Indentation]]
:* [[Columns]]
:* [[Initials]] (dropped caps, dropcaps)
:* [[Symbols]]
:* [[Delimiter]] to forced linebreakmanipulating line breaks and page breaks
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; Structured Text
= 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 as a central location for these, but there is also a [[:Category:Sample_documents|dedicated category]] (the two should mostly match).
; Advanced Document structure
:* [[Hiding Content]]
:* [[Makeup]], allowing for custom and temporary header & footer sections.
; Advanced Text formatting
:* '''[[Visual DebuggingHyphenation]]''' can facilitate tweaking text formatting
:* [[Faking characters]]
:* [[Compound words]]
