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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.

\starttext
Hello World
\stoptext

Now go to the shell/command line and type in

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>
...

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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