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What is ConTeXt? What can I do with it? Let’s see. Take your favourite text editor and type in the following document. Save it as file hello.tex.
<pre>
\starttext
Hello World
\stoptext
</pre>
Now go to the shell/command line and type in
<pre><nowiki>
texexec --pdf hello.tex
and now ConTeXt will start. It will give you some output on your terminal
TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
executable : pdfetex
format : cont-en
inputfile : test
output : standard
interface : en
options : once nonstop
current mode : none
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
\write18 enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
(/opt/texlive/8/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
entering extended mode
(./test.tex{pdftex.cfg}
ConTeXt ver: 2004.4.9 fmt: 2004.4.16 int: english mes: english
language : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
...
</nowiki></pre>
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.
<pre>
\starttext
Hello World
\stoptext
</pre>
Now go to the shell/command line and type in
<pre><nowiki>
texexec --pdf hello.tex
and now ConTeXt will start. It will give you some output on your terminal
TeXExec 4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2004
executable : pdfetex
format : cont-en
inputfile : test
output : standard
interface : en
options : once nonstop
current mode : none
This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a-2.1 (Web2C 7.5.2)
\write18 enabled.
%&-line parsing enabled.
(/opt/texlive/8/texmf/web2c/cp8bit.tcx)
entering extended mode
(./test.tex{pdftex.cfg}
ConTeXt ver: 2004.4.9 fmt: 2004.4.16 int: english mes: english
language : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
...
</nowiki></pre>
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.
