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Here you find the Basics of ConTeXt '''document structure''' and '''text formatting''' (because paragraphs, emphasis, verbatims, quotes... also contributes to the structure of your documents).
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Here you find the Basics of ConTeXt '''[[#Document_structure|document structure]]''' and '''[[#Text_formatting|text formatting]]''' (because paragraphs, emphasis, verbatims, quotes, etc also contribute to the structure of your documents).
  
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If it can help, there is a [[Dictionary]] of typographical terms. There is also an few reference about the [[History of TeX]] (2007, it would benefit from an update).
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If it helps, there is a [[Dictionary]] of typographical terms. There are also a few references to the [[History of TeX]] (2007); it would benefit from an update.
  
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= Document structure =
 
= Document structure =
  
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== ConTeXt Projects ==
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{{TwoColumnsUnderLevel1
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* [[Project structure]]: How to split up content and setup.
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* [[Modes]]: Conditional processing of document
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; ConTeXt Projects
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:* [[Project structure]] How to split up content and setup.
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:* [[Modes]] Conditional processing of document
  
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== Titles, Headings, and Sections ==
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; Titles, Headings, and Sections
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* [[Titles]]: Chapters, sections, and so forth, and tables of contents.
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:* [[Titles]]: sectioning and formatting
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** [[Figures in Headings]]: How to use a figure in place of a section title.
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:* [[Table of Contents]]
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** [[Bold Math in Section Titles]]
 
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** [[Chapters headers]] A fancy chapter heading
 
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* [[Table of Contents]]: How to add and modify Table of Contents
 
  
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== Page Structure ==
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; Page Structure
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* [[Headers and Footers]]: Defining headers and footers with appropriate information.
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:* [[Headers and Footers]]
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* [[Footnotes]]: Footnotes, endnotes, and related notes.
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:* [[Footnotes]], endnotes, and related notes.
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* [[References]]: Automatically referring to pages and labels.
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* [[PDF Bookmarks and Headers]]
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; Structure-Related Lists
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* [[Page numbering in words]]
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:* [[Registers]]: Indexes and other similar word lists.
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:* [[Bibliography]]: Referenced documents and in-text citations.
  
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== Structure-Related Lists ==
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; Referencing
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* [[Registers]]: Indexes and other similar word lists.
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:* [[References]]: Automatically referring to pages and labels.
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* [[Bibliography]]: Referenced documents and in-text citations.
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:* [[Interaction#PDF_Bookmarks|PDF Bookmarks and Headers]]
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* [[Simple Bibliography]]: A simple bibliography module without any database
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:* [[Cross Referencing]]: Inline text referencing.
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* [[Manual Bibliography]]: A very simple bibliography in a few lines
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:* [[URL]]: typesetting of URLs references.
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= Text formatting =
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= Text formatting =
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; Basic Text Formatting
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:* [[Font Switching]], to change font styles (bold, italic, capitalizing, underline, etc.)
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:* [[Right_and_left|Alignment]]
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:* [[Indentation]]
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:* [[Columns]]
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:* [[Color]]
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:* [[Verbatim text]]
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:* [[Quotes]]
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:* [[Framed]]
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:* [[Verse]]
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:* Initials (dropped caps, dropcaps)
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:** placement with {{cmd|placeinitial}}
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:** customization with {{cmd|setupinitial}}
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:* [[Symbols]]
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:* [[Delimiter|Delimiters and breaks]] (delimiting text, specifying line breaks and page breaks)
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; Structured Text
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:* [[Enumerations]]: Itemizations, itemized lists, and bulleted lists.
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:* [[Description|Descriptions]]: Lists with text labels, such as definitions.
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:* [[Paragraph Enumeration]]: Numbered paragraphs.
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:* [[Paragraph Referencing]]: Number all paragraphs for referencing usage
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:* [[Tables_Overview|Tables]]: Different ways to create tables in ConTeXt.
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== Basic Text Formatting ==
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= Further reading =
  
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* [[Font Switching]], to change font styles (bold, italic, capitalizing, underline, etc.)
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; [[Unexpected behavior]]: If ConTeXt appears to behave in a counterintuitive way, chances are that it’s actually your intuitions that lack calibration.
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* [[Indentation]]
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; [[Visual Debugging]]: can facilitate tweaking text formatting
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* Text in [[Columns]]
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; [[Sample documents]]: a page is used as a central location for these, but there is also a [[:Category:Sample_documents|dedicated category]] (the two should mostly match).
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* [[Color]]
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; Advanced Document structure
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* [[Verbatim text]]
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:* [[Hiding Content]]
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* [[Quotes]]
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:* [[Makeup]], allowing for custom and temporary header & footer sections.
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* [[Framed]]
 
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* [[Verse]]
 
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* [[Initials]] (dropped caps, dropcaps)
 
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* [[Symbols]]
 
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* [[Faking characters]]
 
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* [[Compound words]]
 
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* [[Hiding Content]]
 
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* [[Delimiter]] to forced linebreak
 
  
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== Structured Text ==
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; Advanced Text formatting
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* [[Enumerations]]: Itemizations, itemized lists, and bulleted lists.
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:* [[Hyphenation]]
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** [[User-Defined Enumerations]]: Defining a new numbering scheme.
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:* [[composing characters]]
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* [[Description|Descriptions]]: Lists with text labels, such as definitions.
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:* [[Faking characters]]
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* [[Cross Referencing]]: Inline text referencing.
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:* [[Compound words]]
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* [[Paragraph Enumeration]]: Numbered paragraphs.
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:* [[Cropping text]]
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* [[Paragraph Referencing]]: Number all paragraphs for referencing usage
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:* [[Scaling Rotating Mirroring Clipping]]
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* [[Tables_Overview|Tables]]: Different ways to create tables in ConTeXt.
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:* [[TextBackground]] (includes underlining)
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:* Specially [[Shaped paragraphs]]
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:* [[Widows and orphans control]]
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:* [[Paragraph last line control]]
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:* [[autoinsertnextspace]]
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:* [[setuplocalinterlinespace]]
  
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== More advanced Text Formatting (to be structured) ==
 
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* [[Cropping text]]
 
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* [[Graphical text manipulation]]
 
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* [[TextBackground]] (includes underlining)
 
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* Specially [[Shaped paragraphs]]
 
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* [[Widows and orphans control]]
 
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* [[Paragraph last line control]]
 
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* [[autoinsertnextspace]]
 
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* [[setuplocalinterlinespace]]
 
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[[Category:Basics]]

Latest revision as of 13:47, 18 February 2021

Here you find the Basics of ConTeXt document structure and text formatting (because paragraphs, emphasis, verbatims, quotes, etc also contribute to the structure of your documents).

If it helps, there is a Dictionary of typographical terms. There are also a few references to the History of TeX (2007); it would benefit from an update.

Document structure

Text formatting

Further reading

Unexpected behavior
If ConTeXt appears to behave in a counterintuitive way, chances are that it’s actually your intuitions that lack calibration.
Visual Debugging
can facilitate tweaking text formatting
Sample documents
a page is used as a central location for these, but there is also a dedicated category (the two should mostly match).
Advanced Document structure
Advanced Text formatting



 TODO: try to follow the structure of part 1 to help orientation. (See: To-Do List)
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