Basics

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).

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).

• Document structure

  ConTeXt Projects

  • Project structure: How to split up content and setup.
  • Modes: Conditional processing of document

  Titles, Headings, and Sections

  • Titles: Chapters, sections, and so forth, and tables of contents.
    • Figures in Headings: How to use a figure in place of a section title.
    • Bold Math in Section Titles
    • Chapters headers A fancy chapter heading
  • Table of Contents: How to add and modify Table of Contents

  Page Structure

  • Headers and Footers: Defining headers and footers with appropriate information.
  • Footnotes: Footnotes, endnotes, and related notes.
  • References: Automatically referring to pages and labels.
  • PDF Bookmarks and Headers
  • Page numbering in words

  Structure-Related Lists

  • Registers: Indexes and other similar word lists.
  • Bibliography: Referenced documents and in-text citations.
  • Simple Bibliography: A simple bibliography module without any database
  • Manual Bibliography: A very simple bibliography in a few lines

• Text formatting

  Basic Text Formatting

  • Font Switching, to change font styles (bold, italic, capitalizing, underline, etc.)
  • Indentation
  • Text in Columns
  • Color
  • Verbatim text
  • Quotes
  • Framed
  • Verse
  • Initials (dropped caps, dropcaps)
  • Symbols
  • Faking characters
  • Compound words
  • Hiding Content
  • Delimiter to forced linebreak

  Structured Text

  • Enumerations: Itemizations, itemized lists, and bulleted lists.
    • User-Defined Enumerations: Defining a new numbering scheme.
  • Descriptions: Lists with text labels, such as definitions.
  • Cross Referencing: Inline text referencing.
  • Paragraph Enumeration: Numbered paragraphs.
  • Paragraph Referencing: Number all paragraphs for referencing usage
  • Tables: Different ways to create tables in ConTeXt.

  More advanced Text Formatting

  TODO: Warning: to be structured. (See: To-Do List)

  
  

  • Cropping text
  • Graphical text manipulation
  • TextBackground (includes underlining)
  • Specially Shaped paragraphs
  • Widows and orphans control
  • Paragraph last line control
  • autoinsertnextspace
  • setuplocalinterlinespace