Modes

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Often you'd like to publish different versions of a document, say a presentation and a handout or a student's and a teacher's version.

ConTeXt supports such filtering with its modes:

ConTeXt is a great TeX macro package.
\startmode[handout] % The following text will only appear in the handout
It’s based on PlainTeX like the better known LaTeX.
\stopmode

\startnotmode[print]
Here's a link to my homepage: \url[...]
\stopnotmode

...mode and ...notmode let you filter your content sufficient in most cases. You can also give several modes like \startmode[handout,print].

You can typeset the different modes like:

texexec myfile --mode=handout --result=handout.pdf

You don't need the --result, but otherwise you'd get the same filename for both modes.