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* [[source:m-chemic.tex|m-chemic]]: [[Chemistry|PPCHTeX]] (chemical structure formulae) | * [[source:m-chemic.tex|m-chemic]]: [[Chemistry|PPCHTeX]] (chemical structure formulae) | ||
* [[source:m-cweb.tex|m-cweb]]: [[CWEB]] pretty printing | * [[source:m-cweb.tex|m-cweb]]: [[CWEB]] pretty printing | ||
| + | * [[source:m-database.tex|m-database]]: creating simple tables (or forwarding data to user-defined commands) using [[m-database|comma/space/tab-separated values]] | ||
* [[source:m-dratex|m-dratex]]: loading of DraTeX | * [[source:m-dratex|m-dratex]]: loading of DraTeX | ||
* [[source:m-edtsnc.tex|m-edtsnc]]: support for editor synchronization, will replace m-pdfsync | * [[source:m-edtsnc.tex|m-edtsnc]]: support for editor synchronization, will replace m-pdfsync | ||
Revision as of 14:27, 15 May 2006
Modules are extensions to ConTeXt's core functions.
There are not as many modules for ConTeXt as packages for LaTeX, because a lot of LaTeX package features are in ConTeXt's core.
Included modules:
- t-bib: Bibliography (maintained by Taco)
- m-arabtex: loading of Lagally's ArabTeX
- m-chart: Flow Charts
- m-chemic: PPCHTeX (chemical structure formulae)
- m-cweb: CWEB pretty printing
- m-database: creating simple tables (or forwarding data to user-defined commands) using comma/space/tab-separated values
- m-dratex: loading of DraTeX
- m-edtsnc: support for editor synchronization, will replace m-pdfsync
- m-educat: educational additions (for settings school tests or questionaires)
- m-gamma: Omega support
- m-gnuplot: support for direct inclusion of Gnuplot graphs out of the source
- m-graph: support for MetaPost graph module
- m-layout: defines some Layout presets
- m-level: module for catching nesting errors
- m-narrowtt: using a narrower Latin Modern font for verbatim
- m-newmat: support for some AMSmath features, is loaded by amsl, see Math with newmat
- m-pdfsnc: editor/PDF synchronization support (used by iTeXMac and TeXShop)
- m-pictex: needed for PicTeX without eTeX
- m-plus: loads some extra features (currently empty)
- m-pstric: connection macros for PSTricks (PostScript tricks)
- m-quest: module for fill-in forms (dutch only)
- m-steps: Step Charts, see XML step charts
- m-streams: Synchronised typesetting from different sources
- m-subsub: Defines 5 extra sectioning levels
- m-tex4ht: will become a tex4html interface for ConTeXt
- m-tryout: Contains temporary functions for testing
- m-units: Structured input of values with units
- m-visual: Visual Debugging (described in This Way no.7 Faking Text and More)
Contributed modules:
For a list of contributed modules see the modules section on contextgarden.net.
File names of included modules start with "m-", but third party (contributed) modules should start with "t-".
Modules writing guidelines
Prior to release 2005.05.25, ConTeXt silently truncated all file names in \usemodule commands to 8 characters long and lowercased them to "prevent cross platform problems with filenames". Thus, module files that are to be used with older versions of ConTeXt must have filenames that fit those restrictions, or they will (somewhat cryptically) not be found.
TODO
Each module should have an associated specification file (as in /tex/context/interface/cont-en.xml). Probably one day this will become a part of texshow and will also be easy-to-edit.
