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• Easing into ConTeXt (ConTeXt 101)
  ...o go that far into the inner works of the system, when things are supposed to be easier in ConTeXt. ...t your local ConTeXt installation isn't working after all, you can do most things mentioned in [[http://live.contextgarden.net/ ConTeXt online]]
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• Sample bib
  ...cilitate the creation of minimal examples if you have problems and/or want to ask questions on the list; # provide a bibliography of things related to ConTeXt.
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• pm39 tree sitter parser
  ...s. Dividing the document this way makes it easier for tools (that may want to ignore the postamble, for example). Settings are further tokenized into keys and values, with values able to contain other tokens (more commands, etc.).
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• XML Lua
  A few general observations to help you getting started: ...ur xml elements within Lua; <code>lxml...</code> commands pass the content to ConTeXt and typeset it.
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• Executesystemcommand
  == How to pass over part of the source to an external program? == * {{cmd|executesystemcommand}} is equal to {{cmd|immediate}}{{cmd|write18}} while
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• Delimiter
  ...how to group text or where to break lines and pages. ConTeXt handles such things automatically. ...aks to get just the effect you&rsquo;re after. For example, you might want to:
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• User-Defined Enumerations
  ...e match the English one. [[User:Hagen|Hans]] provided this example of how to create a new enumeration in ConTeXt, which defines a "Mojcanian" numbering ...; more traditional orderings tend to replace that with a simple <tt>-</tt> to indicate an out-of-range letter.)
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• Debian installation
  ...istributions for ConTeXt MKIV (but should work fine for MKII). If you want to live on bleeding edge, consider using the packages from Debian/unstable, [[ The status of ConTeXt in Debian/unstable is currently up to date with TeX Live 2021, and includes all the necessary bits and pieces, pl
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• Setups
  ...ents with spaces and linebreaks for maximum readability, instead of having to write a dense macro or, worse, a long in-place definition. You can explicit ...lets you define macros in a setup, and then call the setup inside a group to use the macros as 'local macros' of sorts.
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• System Macros/Mnemonics and Aliases
  ...re, ConTeXt introduces some symbolic names. This makes it easier to key in things like this: {{note|Beware: if you want to have access to @, !, and ? in macronames, use
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• Command/getmarking
  As TeX’s natural model has some limitations, in mkIV we do things a bit different (but rather well defined). When a set of marks on a page is both : equivalent to first + last
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• Getting Started with XML and ConTeXt using TEXML
  This document is for XML authors who want to use open source software to produce high quality PDF documents--right now.
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• Encodings and Regimes in XeTeX
  ...nsider this page as a part of official documentation or as a recipe of how things should be done. This information might become obsolete. ...ngines, XeTeX interprets the input as UTF-8 by default. In pdfTeX you have to say
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• Dummy text
  ...''}} command lets you input text from a {{code|.tex}} file. You don't have to provide your own dummy text: ConTeXt ships with a number of lovely quotatio The module {{modulesrc|m-visual.mkiv}} contains code to produce word-sized black rectangles in random lengths and numbers.
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• Introduction
  # '''start-stop''': To apply ''something'' to some text, enclose the text in {{code|\start''something''}} {{code|\stop''s # '''setup''': To configure ''something'' for the rest of the document, use {{code|\setup''so
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• Custom pretty printer
  ConTeXt allows one to define a custom pretty printer, which knows how to possible with MkIV and [[LuaTeX]]. This page does not apply to MkII.
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• TrueType fonts in luaTeX
  ...hould help you explore some features of luaTeX/mkiv and should inspire you to find your own solutions. ...venient than they ever were with pdfTeX. So as an exercise, we will do two things: use some of the ligatures, and use old-style numerals.
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• How to make a MyWay
  ...articles are primarily short introductions to specific aspects of ConTeXt. To give My Way articles a consistent look, they are formatted in a specific st Formatting an article for My Way is simple. Just do three things:
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• System Macros/Branches and Decisions
  ...tanding anything they were able to locate a LaTeX macro that could be used to inspect the next character. ...s meaning with another undefined one, aptly named <code>\undefined</code>. To guarantee correct working of this set of macros, <code>\undefined</code> ma
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• Fonts - Old Content
  = How to use fonts in ConTeXt = * If it fits your needs, consider first to use the former [[Simplefonts - Old Content]] module, now in the core as {{s
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• Windows Installation
  ...>context</code>. At least try the other Windows installation pages, linked to this page, before following these instructions.}} In order to be able to run ConTeXt under Windows, you will need:
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• Version Control
  ...only for LaTeX but for TeX and friends, is useful for getting among other things revision number of your project to use it in your TeX-document.
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• Indentation
  ...a <tt>noindent</tt> at the end of their definitions, and if the user wants to overrule that, he can add an explicit <tt>indent</tt> at the beginning of t ...indentation after them, and {{cmd|indentation}} and {{cmd|noindentation}} to manually force/disable an indentation.
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• Humour
  ...hive.contextgarden.net/message/20100403.155801.7098c48a.en.html this poem] to the mailing list Fifty emails, in your inbox to see
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• Encodings and Regimes - Old Content
  ...rating systems (e.g. Latin-1, Mac Roman, Windows 1252, ISO-8859-#) attempt to shoehorn a set of characters into eight bytes. As a result, working with [[pdfTeX]] (MkII) you need to make a choice which input encoding ('''regime''') or font/output encoding (
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• ConTeXt Standalone/TODO
  (this will move to a better place) * rename to install-or-update-context.sh
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• Read Me
  adapted to wiki markup. we dislike any licence that needs more than a few pages of dense legal code to
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• TEI xml
  ...ademic projects use these guidelines, and they should be a pretty good way to make sure that your electronic edition of a text will be useful in the futu ...llow the TEI guidelines can be typeset with ConTeXt. We would invite users to keep a few caveats in mind:
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• Presentation Styles
  ...ed with ConTeXt. There will also be a list of predefined commands specific to single styles. {{todo|page in progress - feel free to contribute
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• FAQ
  {{todo|This FAQ needs to have a lot of things worked on. To avoid clutter from repeated TODO tags, just note missing answers with "..." :* and a set of software and tools for moving from these macros to high-quality digital documents.
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• Presentations
  After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing pages in fullscreen mode. This is especially appealing when you want to
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• From LaTeX to ConTeXt
  General hints for converting from LaTeX to Context can be found in ...special things that you may be doing with LaTeX, but are not so obvious to do with ConTeXt.
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• Emacs-muse
  documents and publishing them to various output formats. you are to benefit of Muse's editing capacities. Then Muse has to be also
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• Windows Installation: ConTeXt Suite with SciTe
  {{note | You will need admin rights to your Windows to manage the installation process. If you don't have that, get somebody who d These instructions apply to ConTeXt versions from September 19, 2011. If you have used the ConTeXt-SciT
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• Simplefonts - Old Content
  * the user doesn’t need to write [[Fonts_in_LuaTeX#The_standard_way:_Typescripts|typescripts]]; and * the interface is much easier to use.
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• Movie
  ...his page will explain how to use [[MetaFun_-_MetaPost_in_ConTeXt|MetaFun]] to create a mp4 movie. Such movie can be embedded in a presentation, put on Yo ...a pdf such as each page is a frame of the movie, (2) convert the pdf pages to jpeg images, (3) assemble these images into a mp4 movie.
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• MkIV Differences
  ...vel, but there are in fact a few important differences. This page attempts to list the intentional as well as the unavoidable incompatibilities between M ...uture), but it also parses the command line differently. You must remember to always give the full name of the options, and then the effects should be al
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• pm39 interface analysis
  ...is an effort to understand how different kinds of commands are expressed, to help support the effort of generated a DITA document set. ...to gather and process most of data from `context-en.xml`; for the queries that
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• Programming in LuaTeX
  ...e; then, once inside Lua, you need to use the appropriate functions to put things into the TeX stream. ...around the LuaTeX primitive {{cmd|directlua}}, which you should never need to use. In general, you will define a function inside a {{cmd|startluacode}} b
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• Featuresets
  ...ures, such as <i>onum</i> (oldstyle) and <i>smcp</i> (smallcaps) are known to most users of Open Type fonts, and virtually every open type font has defau In MkIV there are two kinds of font feature directly visible to the user: ''featureset'' and ''open-type feature''.
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• Spot Colors
  To produce a file ready for a clean PDF separation process at your print house which will set things up for spot colors with CMYK allowed. The last setting ensures that black o
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• Dimensions
  ...his was an advantage, because floating point arithmetic was not guaranteed to be consistent across platforms. ...the native TeX method to initialise a dimension variable. The requirement to explicitly initialize your dimension variables is a bit clunky, but this me
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• Extension:ConTeXtXML
  The ConTeXtXML extension is a new wiki feature specifically designed to edit the ConTeXt command reference pages (the ones that live under the `/Co ...of new wiki pages below `/Command/`, and using a ContentHandler extension to maintain those pages. The text model of those pages is `contextxml`, which
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• TeXShop
  ...Engines/Inactive/ConTeXt-Sync'', and ''ExternalEditorScripts'' if you plan to use TeXShop as a previewer for an external editor. ...most up to date ConTeXt release (see [[Installation]]). For that, you need to perform the following one-time set up:
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• Wishes for Latin Modern
  ...y this wiki can offer a good-enough shelter for comments and proposals how to make the [[Latin Modern]] font family even better than it already is.'' ...u can also upload figures and/ore use <context>embded \TEX\ code</context> to ilustrate your wish (see [[Help:Editing]]). This list of already fulfilled
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• RTL
  ...e beta. All the credit should go to Hans, Wolfgang and others who respond to questions on the mailing list. Use {{cmd|setupalign}} to change the text direction to RTL. This command sets the page, paragraph and text directions.
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• Columns
  There are different possibilities to typeset text in two or more columns: Columns and columnsets are different mechanisms to produce a document
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• mixed languages
  ...ean Latin language, the best way to switch from one language to another is to use the command : ==How to achieve it ==
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• Biochemistry textbook
  ...to share the code. There is nothing special in it, but it might be useful to beginners. The book was compiled in Mk II, of course. Anything slightly non ...e first one at the bottom of the line, the second one high (don't know how to show that here). I wanted "English" quotes and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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• Mtxrun
  ...elper script for all sorts of ConTeXt-related things, from individual runs to managing the installation tree. It is located at <tt>bin/mtxrun</tt> in the to see the list of that script's options.
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• Aleph Guide
  =Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed= (with apologies to Maimonides)
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• TABLE
  The preferred way to typeset tables is to use what are called &ldquo;natural tables&rdquo; (also known as &ldquo;auto To place a table use:
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