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What is ConTeXt? What can I do with it? Let’s see. Take your favourite text editor, type in the following document and save it as a file hello.tex.

\starttext
Hello World
\stoptext

It shows already a ConTeXt essential: everything's between \startsomething and \stopsomething.

I you don't have ConTeXt installed (yet), you can first try out the latest version using the web interface http://live.contextgarden.net.

If you already installed it, you can go to the shell/command line and type in

texexec --pdf hello.tex

and now ConTeXt will start. It will give you some output on your terminal

 TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005

            executable : pdfetex
                format : cont-en
             inputfile : test
                output : standard
             interface : en
          current mode : none
               TeX run : 1

This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
 (/opt/context/current/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
entering extended mode
(./test.tex

ConTeXt  ver: 2005.08.19  fmt: 2005.8.19  int: english  mes: english

language        : language en is active
<protectionstate 0>
...

Don’t be worried. This is the way it should look. Once texexec has finished, it will leave behind a file called hello.pdf. Open it and you will see a "Hello world" on a virtual A4 paper and a page number.

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