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Hopefully the readers (of which there seem to be a lot; from 0 to over 9000 views within 1.5 years [minus a dozen of my own previews :D]) will get a better understanding of what ConTeXt is, what its advantages and disadvantages are, also compared to other popular software, and how Textadept can be used to get the most out of ConTeXt.
Note though, that in the end this page is meant to be of personal purpose.
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-> slight changes due to version change of Textadept (v9.6 -> v10.0), especially for choosing themes in TA
-> corrected some minor mistakes
-> in the future I will leave only the last three changelogs (updates) on this page
2018/07/13:
Here is the place to get everything that is important to get started with ''ConTeXt'' (''mkiv'') and ''Textadept'' on ''MS Windows'' systems.
Note that this page is a ''User talk'', which might differ from usual wiki-entries. In the end this page is meant to be of personal purpose. This means that there is no absolute truth to be found within this page. Experience might differ heavily from the expected results. Here I, ''Koenich'', will try to add as much info as I could gather on my way of learning, what I like to abbreviate ''CTX'', ConTeXt. Hopefully the readers (of which there seem to be a lot; from 0 to over 9000 views within 1.5 years [minus a dozen of my own previews :D]) will get a better understanding of what ConTeXt is, what its advantages and disadvantages are, also compared to other popular software, and how Textadept can be used to get the most out of ConTeXt regarding an efficient work-flow.
(Thanks to especially *''Donald Knuth''*, *''Hans Hagen''* and too many other coders and users to mention right here!)
= Introduction =
* '''Note''' that since this way you bound snippets to Textadept's ConTeXt lexer, Textadept's status bar in the lower right corner has to say '''context''', otherwise use a ConTeXt document or see Step 2.2.
* Read Learn more about snippets in Textadept's [https://foicica.com/textadept/api.html#textadept.snippets manual]. =ConTeXt's Textadept settings= ConTeXt comes with configuration files for Textadept that can be found in <code>\ConTeXt\tex\texmf-context\context\data\textadept\context</code>. They can basically be copied from <code>context</code> folder to your <code>USERNAME\.textadept</code> folder. There are some things to take into account before using them: * The included <code>init.lua</code> is not empty. If you edited yours already, your changes will be overwritten. You can circumvent this by renaming ConTeXt's <code>init.lua</code> to something different like <code>dinit.lua</code> and load the renamed file directly from your own <code>init.lua</code> by using the following code: require('dinit.lua')* The included files are for Textadept 9 only. Using the files unchanged with Textadept 10 will give you errors and make TA unusable.
=3rd party projects=
