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).
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Document structure
ConTeXt Projects
- Project structure: How to split up content and setup.
- Modes: Conditional processing of document
Titles, Headings, and Sections
- Titles, structure and formatting
- Table of Contents
Page Structure
- Headers and Footers: Defining headers and footers with appropriate information.
- Footnotes: Footnotes, endnotes, and related notes.
- References: Automatically referring to pages and labels.
- PDF Bookmarks and Headers
- Page numbering in words
Structure-Related Lists
- Registers: Indexes and other similar word lists.
- Bibliography: Referenced documents and in-text citations.
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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
- Faking characters
- Compound words
- Hiding Content
- 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)