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== In short ==
This is an illustrative example of what a ConTeXt documentlooks like to the writer:
<context source=yestext="And this is what the resulting PDF looks like:">
\setuphead[section][color=red]
\starttext
\section{Hello}
World!
\stoptext
</context>
* ''unified'': nearly any feature you could want is in one of the many core modules, avoiding the common LaTeX problem of clashing third-party packages.
* ''extensive'': there is support for such diverse things as colors, adaptive backgrounds, hyperlinks, presentations, figure-text integration, typesetting for [[Chemistry|chemistry]] and [[Command/unit|physics]], [[Modes|conditional compilation]], non-latin languages, and [[Imposition|binding and imposition]].
* ''text-based'': you write the input document as source code, in plain text.* ''compiled'': you compile a document source code to a PDF by opening a command-line window (like the Terminal on Linux or Mac OS, or the [[wikipedia:Command_Prompt|Command Prompt]] on Windows) and running {{code|context mydocument.tex}}. Installing and updating also happens via the command line, in general.
ConTeXt provides a multi-lingual user interface with support for markup in English, Dutch, German, French, and Italian and support for output in many languages including western European languages, eastern European languages, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. It also allows the user to use different TeX engines like
