How-to guides

Current organization

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  Basics
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  Fonts
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  Color
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  Graphics
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  Layout
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  Tables
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  Bibliography
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  Sciences
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  Interaction
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  Languages
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  ConTeXt Tools
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  XML
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  Programming & DB
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  Development
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  Text Editors

Potential coming organization

• Structuring document content

  1. How-to define the headlines numbering scheme?
  2. How-to typeset itemization
  3. How-to typeset description or definitions
  4. How-to typeset numbered description or definitions

  1. How-to define and insert table of contents
  2. How-to define and insert other registers
  3. How-to define and insert synonyms and acronym for glossary
  4. How-to define and insert bibliography
  5. How-to refer to various internal or external elements

  Specific content

  1. How-to insert figures
  2. How-to insert tables
  3. How-to typeset mathematics and formulas
  4. How-to build graphics with metapost and metafun

  Page layout

  1. How-to set up the layouts of the pages
  2. How-to define headers and footers
  3. How-to typeset footnotes
  4. How-to typeset margin notes
  5. How-to typeset with columns

• Fonts, characters, colors, units, langage

  1. How-to insert special characters and composite characters
  2. How-to cope with units
  3. How-to cope with color
  4. How-to use the possibilities offered by fonts and activate their features
  5. How-to apply linguistic specificity.

  Text typesetting

  1. How-to cope with alignments
  2. How-to cope with line and paragraph spacing.
  3. How-to define and insert page breaking

  1. How-to highlight text, paragraphs
  2. How-to highlight text, paragraphs with metapost and metafun
  3. How-to define text and page background
  4. How-to outline text and paragraphs

  ConTeXt

  1. How-to use mtxrun
  2. How-to process a file and what are the auxiliary files
  3. How-to process a complex large documents
  4. How-to define a whole document like a report or a book
  5. How-to deal with define, setup and start commands
  6. How-to define commands/macros
  7. How-to use modules
  8. How-to specify output possibilities
  9. How-to cope with interaction in electronic documents
  10. How-to debug

Other Potential coming organization

Content

• Text

  1. text, mots, phrases, paragraphes
  2. headlines and sectionning
  3. listes or itemization
  4. quotes
  5. verbatim
  6. definition, or description
  7. enumeration
  8. verse
  9. References: cross references, links, bibliography, other files
  10. Language

• Figures, tables, maths, notes et pièces attachées,…

  1. Figures et groupes de figures
  2. Tables
  3. mathematics and formulas
  4. video and sound
  5. graphics with metapost and metafun
  6. Notes et pièces attachées

Formatting and highlighting

• Text

  1. line and paragraph spacing
  2. Saut de page
  3. fonts, style and features
  4. alignments
  5. columns
  6. Framed
  7. colors
  8. rules
  9. Fonctionnalités PDF (à mettre dans le préambule)

• Page

  1. Page format
  2. Layout
  3. Headers and footers

Valuable reading tools as the content expands

• Browsing content

  1. List of contents
  2. List of figures
  3. List of tables
  4. List of formulas
  5. index
  6. synonyms and acronym for glossary
  7. other registers
  8. bibliography

• Splitting content

  1. front matter, back matter
  2. page numbering scheme
  3. headline numbering scheme
  4. Setups
  5. page numbering scheme
  6. Front cover and back cover

Other important details

• special characters and composite characters
• units
• Modes
• Date
• How-to use mtxrun
• How-to process a file and what are the auxiliary files
• How-to process a complex large documents
• How-to define a whole document like a report or a book
• How-to deal with define, setup and start commands
• How-to define commands/macros
• How-to use modules
• How-to specify output possibilities
• How-to debug