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News

• New introductions in Chinese and German.
• The 18th ConTeXt meeting will take place in Lutten, The Netherlands, on August 17th–23th, 2024.
• The 17th ConTeXt meeting took place in Sibřina, Czech Republic, on September 10th–16th, 2023.
• ConTeXt news on Mastodon, since 2022.
• 28th BachoTeX in 2023, organized by GUST, the Polish TeX Users' Group, with the following content about ConTeXt and LuaMetaTeX
  • Willi Egger: Calendars, the PocketDiary module and further applications of it, Workshop: Make a picture-frame.
  • Hans Hagen: Janusz' handsome math fonts, How green is (and can we make) TeX, LuaMetaTeX in ConTeXt.
  • Zdeněk Svoboda: ConTeXt on Web – New Online Application for ConTeXt Users.
  • Arthur Rosendahl: ConTeXt for Weddings.
  • Edith Sundqvist: The European Rule Of Thumbs Contest 2023.
  • Mikael Sundqvist: ConTeXt - Step by step workshop for setting up a ConTeXt document layout similar to books by Edward Tufte and sources.
  • Damien Thiriet: Crossword exercise sheet with ConTeXt.
• The Wiki's ConTeXt installation is on version ConTeXt 2024.01.08 11:23 LMTX.

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• Install ConTeXt and start typesetting.
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• We have a Wiki suggestion box for wiki improvement proposals.
• A Not so Short introduction to ConTeXt is available in Czech, English, French, Russian, Serbian and Spanish (state: 2022).

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These quadrants are based on Diátaxis documentation framework, from Daniele Procida.