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:; Compatibility : ConTeXt supports TeX engines such as [[wikipedia:pdfTeX|pdfTeX]], [[XeTeX]], and [[LuaTeX]] without changing the user interface.
:; History : ConTeXt was developed from 1990 by Hans Hagen from [http://www.pragma-ade.com/ PRAGMA Advanced Document Engineering] (Pragma ADE), a Netherlands-based company. See [[ConTeXt history]] for further details.
:; Licensing : ConTeXt is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/free_software free software]. The program code (i.e. anything not under the <code>/doc</code> subtree) is distributed under the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GPL GNU GPL]; the documentation is provided under [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons Creative Commons] Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike license.
::: ConTeXt supports the PDF format and is able to directly produce highly interactive PDF files, using pdfTeX. All cross-references are automatically converted to hyperlinks. Such documents can be viewed and consulted with Acrobat. ConTeXt can provide all kinds of navigational aids that can be activated without programming. Electronic versions of documents thereby become very useful in educational settings. The potential of PDF is available to the user: complex forms and JavaScripts are no problem for ConTeXt. [http://www.pragma-ade.nl/ PRAGMA ADE] has developed ConTeXt in-house mainly to suit its own and customers' wishes concerning developing educational documents. Flexibility in layout, reuse of content, and maintenance are keywords.
=== How does ConTeXt versioning work? ===
=== Does ConTeXt support Unicode? ===
:Yes. It supports Unicode (UTF-8). In [[XeTeX]] and [[LuaTeX]] it is the default input encoding, while you need to use <{{cmd>|enableregime</cmd>}}<tt>[utf-8]</tt> command when working with [[pdfTeX]]. See also [[Encodings and Regimes - Old Content]] (This needs a bit of elaboration!)
=== Why should I only use letters, digits and hyphens in file/path names? ===
=== How can I get a horizontal space with a defined width, so as ex. "\hspace{3em}" or "\hspace*{3em}" in LaTeX? ===
:A horizontal space can be inserted with the TeX-Primitive <code>\hskip〈dimension〉</code> or with the ConTeXt command <{{cmd>|hspace</cmd>}}<tt>[identifier]</tt>.
=== Why is there a line-break in the output after some commands? ===
=== Does $$...$$ work for display math, like in (La)TeX? ===
:No; the spacing above and below the equation will be wrong, and maybe other aspects too. Instead use <{{cmd>|startformula</cmd> }} and <{{cmd>|stopformula</cmd> }} (just as one rather generally prefers to use <{{cmd>|begin{equation}</cmd> }} and <{{cmd>|end{equation}</cmd> }} in LaTeX).
=== How do I get a numbered equation? ===
:Add <{{cmd>|placeformula</cmd> }} before the <{{cmd>|startformula</cmd>}}.
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