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What is ConTeXt? What can I do with it? Let’s see. Take your favourite [[text editor]], type in the following document and save it as a file <code>hello.tex</code>.
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What is ConTeXt? What can I do with it? Let’s see. Take your favourite Text editor, type in the following document and save it as a file hello.tex.

\starttext
Hello World
\stoptext

It shows already a ConTeXt essential: everything's between \startsomething and \stopsomething.

If you don't have ConTeXt installed (yet), you can first try out the latest version using the web interface http://live.contextgarden.net.

If you already installed it, you can go to the shell/command line and type in

texexec hello.tex

and now ConTeXt will start. It will give you some output on your terminal

TeXExec | processing document 'hello.tex'
TeXExec | no ctx file found
TeXExec | tex processing method: context
TeXExec | TeX run 1
TeXExec | writing option file hello.top
TeXExec | tex engine: pdfetex
TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
TeXExec | progname: context
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5)
 \write18 enabled.
 %&-line parsing enabled.
 (c:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx)
entering extended mode
(./hello.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2006.05.14 23:57  fmt: 2006.5.16  int: english  mes: english

language        : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
...

Don’t be worried. This is the way it should look. Once texexec has finished, it will leave behind a file called hello.pdf. Open it and you will see a "Hello world" on a virtual A4 paper and a page number.

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