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TODO: mention MKII and IV and both texexec and context already at this step (See: To-Do List) |
This page describes the fundamentals of using ConTeXt. It includes hands-on examples, and the instructions assume that you have ConTeXt installed. If you don't want to install it yet, you can try it on the web.
Start by typing the following into a text editor and saving it as hello.tex
:
\starttext Hello World \stoptext
Then go to the command-line and type:
texexec hello.tex
ConTeXt will then process your document. It will output some information, such as follows—this output does not indicate an error:
TeXExec | processing document 'hello.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file hello.top TeXExec | tex engine: pdfetex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en TeXExec | progname: context This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.3-2.2 (Web2c 7.5.5) \write18 enabled. %&-line parsing enabled. (c:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) entering extended mode (./hello.tex ConTeXt ver: 2006.05.14 23:57 fmt: 2006.5.16 int: english mes: english language : language en is active <protectionstate 0> ...
Once texexec has finished, it will leave behind a file called hello.pdf. Open it and you will see a "Hello world" document.