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- :# How-to define the headlines numbering scheme? :# How-to typeset itemization5 KB (641 words) - 11:43, 17 April 2024
- ...articles are primarily short introductions to specific aspects of ConTeXt. To give My Way articles a consistent look, they are formatted in a specific st ...ginal article [http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/magazines/mag-0000.pdf How to make a MyWay] from 2003, so it may be outdated, and the details may no long3 KB (507 words) - 08:06, 1 July 2022
- ...an be checked out from the full list. Both time and the number of packages to be installed will drop below 50%. ===Legend to the list of collections===3 KB (416 words) - 16:03, 8 June 2020
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- == How to edit descriptions == To edit the descripiton of a command, click on 'edit' next to the word 'Description'. You can use all the formatting of the [http://meta.692 bytes (107 words) - 15:36, 8 June 2020
- This page describes how to use the Relax NG Comact Schema <tt>[http://dl.contextgarden.net/texshow/int ===How do the elements look like?===1 KB (164 words) - 08:29, 2 July 2022
- :# How-to define the headlines numbering scheme? :# How-to typeset itemization5 KB (641 words) - 11:43, 17 April 2024
- On this page, feel free to leave suggestions to improve the wiki further. For example, if you were looking for something and it was not obvious where to look...1 KB (188 words) - 13:28, 24 September 2021
- The {{cmd|currentstructuretitle}} command allows the document to reference the name of the current document structure element. For example, Instructions on how to make buns.867 bytes (114 words) - 08:48, 8 March 2014
- == How to pass over part of the source to an external program? == * {{cmd|executesystemcommand}} is equal to {{cmd|immediate}}{{cmd|write18}} while3 KB (437 words) - 19:25, 8 June 2020
- Tutorials, how-to guides, references, and discussions related to ConTeXt. * guide the reader, step by step, to learn certain points considered fundamental by experienced people.3 KB (480 words) - 16:44, 14 April 2024
- == How can they be useful? == ...upled problems and solutions, for which the relevant mechanism is blocks. To quote Hans: "(there are some examples in the test suite under blocks)." Af1 KB (211 words) - 15:36, 8 June 2020
- To use Russian in ConTeXt MkIV, you need a font that has cyrillic letters, e.g For more details on how to change fonts in ConTeXt, see [[Fonts in LuaTeX]]449 bytes (56 words) - 12:23, 8 June 2020
- ...ired to make some modules such as those for R, lilypond, gnuplot, ... etc. to work properly, but may impose a security leak if you would be running TeX o == How to turn on write18 ==3 KB (452 words) - 13:27, 9 August 2020
- At the end, with one or two commands, you will make your document enable to use any fonts available on your computer. * How to use the [[ConTeXt distribution's Fonts|21 provided fonts]].3 KB (449 words) - 21:07, 20 April 2024
- <td>''command'' to place before each block, e.g. {{cmd|startnarrower}}</td> <td>''command'' to place after each block, e.g. <code>\stopnarrower</code></td>3 KB (371 words) - 13:24, 13 October 2019
- should become reality. Thanks to their donations we now have a formal Taco and Hans decided to lay down and rest710 bytes (114 words) - 08:08, 28 July 2011
- ...ate` function in MetaPost, by default, uses a seeded value. This is useful to generate the "same" random results each time the final product is generated ...cycle and you may not get all the references correct). Another approach is to delete the tuc file between runs.717 bytes (115 words) - 15:15, 8 June 2020
- ...se fonts (or rather typescripts) in Mark IV, so that you just take a ready-to-use recipe from there and paste it into your document. ...e crediting people for each and every answer would be cumbersome, I'd like to thank here all of you that helped me understand ConTeXt (especially Hans, o3 KB (444 words) - 13:18, 9 August 2020
- ...user specifies less than two arguments, it adds empty arguments at the end to make up the missing numbers. So, <tt>\dodoublegroupempty\command</tt> leads to:2 KB (236 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
- ...ral/magazines/mag-0000.pdf 2003 - Introduction] : for what is ThisWay, how to write a MyWay</li> ...a-ade.nl/general/magazines/mag-0007.pdf 2004 - Faking Text and More] : how to make fake text of black or colored boxes</li>5 KB (728 words) - 08:28, 2 July 2022
- ...user specifies less than two arguments, it adds empty arguments at the end to make up the missing numbers. ...ts, but is now a synonym. It is still used alongside {{cmd|dodoubleempty}} to remind the programmer that the arguments are requird instead of optional, b2 KB (308 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
- ...ug.org TeX User Group] sponsered online journal practical articles on "how to get things done" using TeX and friends. A typical issue of The PracTeX Jour * a write-up on how to use a useful LaTeX package2 KB (221 words) - 15:05, 8 June 2020
- ...lect a list of your favorite, common ConTeXt coding errors. Look carefully to see what is wrong... * \śtart (try to guess how this comes about...)737 bytes (97 words) - 14:01, 8 June 2020
- <td>''name of breakpoint set to add to''</td> <td>''character at which to break''</td>4 KB (558 words) - 08:14, 24 April 2020
- ...mmand and a Serif font to the {{cmd|rm}} command. This page also describes how typefaces differ from typescripts. This should reveal a list similar to the following:4 KB (503 words) - 11:38, 3 July 2020
- ...n="left">Explanation</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="doc1">new keyword to be defined</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="doc2">a combination of exist <div class="cd:description">This command allows you to define new keywords for {{cmd|vspacing}} (aka {{cmd|blank}}) by using (or c1 KB (192 words) - 10:07, 29 October 2021
- To access the last head number in a document one can use: The following example from the mailing list demonstrates how to use it.1 KB (122 words) - 14:50, 8 June 2020
- ...e some dynamics to your documents, there are essentially two possibilities to do so: ...have a [[Presentations|presentation]] and you want the content of a slide to be gradually shown on the screen like in the next example:6 KB (887 words) - 13:17, 9 August 2020
- ...th {{cmd|environment}}; and other components with {{cmd|component}}. Calls to {{cmd|product}} do nothing. You can type {{cmd|startcomponent| *}} to indicate that the component's reporting name is the same as the filename (w2 KB (263 words) - 13:11, 6 September 2020
- ...erits all those features. In addition to these, ConTeXt adds lot of macros to make the typesetting of mathematics easier. ...h. TeX takes care of proper spacing around expressions and provides macros to typeset most mathematical constructs.5 KB (646 words) - 08:27, 2 July 2022
- ...libera.chat]. There are about 5-10 users online regularly, and there used to be the TeXbot maintained by Troy Henderson that allows real-time testing of ...further down to learn how to use the bot; the basic IRC commands; and how to start using IRC in general. Sorry about putting the most introductory secti3 KB (512 words) - 21:15, 23 September 2022
- {{note | I am trying to copy the beginners manual to the wiki. This can also serve as a tutorial --[[User:Adityam|Aditya]] 07:59 TeX is a typesetting system and a programming language to3 KB (377 words) - 16:17, 8 June 2020
- <td>The number of times to repeat the commands</td> <td>Commands or text to repeat</td>2 KB (242 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
- |right-aligned (Again, better to not use <code>left</code>.) |Flush to inner margin.4 KB (543 words) - 16:23, 14 April 2024
- <td class="doc1">number of pages to generate</td> ...ption">Displays information about the papersize, margins, fontsize and how to access the information in your TeX file. Draws a frame around the text area2 KB (226 words) - 14:06, 30 November 2021
- * [http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/itex2MML.html itex2mml] - TeX to MathML conversion ...maplesoft.com/standards/MathML/info.html Maplesoft MathML Home Page] - How to Export Maple Output as MathML1 KB (157 words) - 07:54, 1 July 2022
- ...at make up ConTeXt code: Lua, MetaPost, TeX, and XML. But once it is clear to a user what (s)he is dealing with, it can also indicate a “Lean and Mean * Various extensions have been made to other Lua interface libraries.4 KB (606 words) - 09:43, 1 July 2022
- {{todo|more to write about one of the most well-supported engines by ConTeXt}} If you want to try an '''unsupported, experimental snapshot''', there are Debian packages.1 KB (183 words) - 19:24, 8 June 2020
- <td>''se-ve-ral words cut in-to syl-la-bles with hy-phens''</td> Indicate how to hyphenate a word. Useful when there are some foreign or unusual words that1 KB (171 words) - 18:02, 30 November 2020
- ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n. ** {{cmd|exitloop}} to exit a loop.2 KB (205 words) - 16:30, 11 November 2019
- For getting ConTeXt [[MkIV]] onto a Mac there are basically two routes to take. MacTeX (TeXLive distribution made especially for Mac OSX) and the Con * The simplest method is to use MacTeX, but as this is essentially TeXLive you will not have the most r3 KB (531 words) - 13:31, 11 July 2021
- ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n. ** {{cmd|exitloop}} to exit a loop.2 KB (197 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2019
- < [[From LaTeX to ConTeXt]] | [[Article Abstracts]] > ..., <code>\author</code>, and <code>\date</code> commands, which can be used to produce a relatively automatic title block.8 KB (1,157 words) - 13:20, 9 August 2020
- This page is dedicated to collecting all available information on how to achieve in Context when you would resort to callbacks to do the same2 KB (234 words) - 17:01, 8 June 2020
- Counting up to 3: ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.2 KB (218 words) - 16:30, 11 November 2019
- ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n. ** {{cmd|exitloop}} to exit a loop.2 KB (202 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2019
- ...s a temporary re-write of the page. Once I am done, I will move everything to the main page and delete this page --[[User:Adityam|Aditya]]}} In order to install and run ConTeXt on Windows you need the following:2 KB (269 words) - 16:01, 20 November 2012
- ...a <tt>noindent</tt> at the end of their definitions, and if the user wants to overrule that, he can add an explicit <tt>indent</tt> at the beginning of t ...indentation after them, and {{cmd|indentation}} and {{cmd|noindentation}} to manually force/disable an indentation.6 KB (820 words) - 06:32, 16 April 2021
- <td>Commands or text to repeat</td> ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.2 KB (245 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
- Recently there was the question how to modify a font at runtime. This is an example on how missing ligatures can be used:3 KB (429 words) - 14:19, 8 June 2020
- ConTeXt allows one to define a custom pretty printer, which knows how to possible with MkIV and [[LuaTeX]]. This page does not apply to MkII.7 KB (1,208 words) - 14:08, 8 June 2020
- == How to place an image on a defined makeup or standardmakeup page. == Define your custom makeup or the standardmakeup to use your defined layer as its background1 KB (144 words) - 03:25, 10 May 2023
- ...l on fonts] or documents cited on the Fonts page (be warned: understanding how fonts work is not easy). Each typescript below defines a keyword to use with {{cmd|setupbodyfont}}. Usually this is the same as the name of the3 KB (412 words) - 15:06, 8 June 2020
- % the following example shows how to define symbols which scale with the1 KB (130 words) - 19:44, 13 January 2020
- useless unit: how about 0.1 * fontsize useless unit: how about 0.1 * fontsize2 KB (324 words) - 14:22, 8 June 2020
- <td>Commands or text to repeat</td> ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.2 KB (311 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
- ...it also included the {{cmd|text}} command, though that has now been moved to the core. (These samples are adapted from an example sent to the mailing list on 2005-06-28 by Wolfgang Zillig.)2 KB (251 words) - 13:17, 9 August 2020
- ...ectionblockenvironment ... \stopsectionblockenvironment</tt> allows values to be set that only apply within the named section block rather than globally. ...p commands that normally have a global effect can be limited to only apply to a named section block, thus allowing different settings in different blocks2 KB (306 words) - 18:15, 20 March 2022
- ...n still search (in searchable PDF editors) or copy them to the text editor to see the missing characters. ...e are glue, hbox, kern, penalty and vbox layers. See <cmd>showmakeup</cmd> to see other options.1 KB (185 words) - 11:35, 9 February 2021
- Tips and tricks to speed up ConTeXt. .... Subsequently cached PDFs are used. Loading PDF is always faster compared to using other formats.3 KB (524 words) - 14:03, 6 February 2021
- ...alty \clubpenalty] commands to avoid them. These penalties are usually set to the moderate value of 150 which offers mild discouragement of bad breaks. ...default (150) to allow widows and orphans, and infinite (10000 or greater) to forbid them.2 KB (247 words) - 16:02, 8 June 2020
- This page shows you how to use most of the typographical features of the Palatino Linotype font shippe % by default all \it \bf \bi \smallcaps \oldstyle styles are ready to use as well as ligatures2 KB (261 words) - 15:10, 8 June 2020
- = How to use fonts in ConTeXt = * If it fits your needs, consider first to use the former [[Simplefonts - Old Content]] module, now in the core as {{s6 KB (976 words) - 08:26, 2 July 2022
- ...://www.gutenberg.eu.org/eurotex2005/ several persons approached Hans Hagen to translate the manual ''ConTeXt, an excursion''. This page lists the content ...this page is to comment which sections need to be updated, which ones need to be deleted, etc., before beginning the translation.7 KB (632 words) - 18:22, 8 June 2020
- # '''start-stop''': To apply ''something'' to some text, enclose the text in {{code|\start''something''}} {{code|\stop''s # '''setup''': To configure ''something'' for the rest of the document, use {{code|\setup''so9 KB (1,275 words) - 22:48, 21 October 2020
- = Two commands to set up the language aspects= :: to set the language of auto-generated language elements, like the title of the3 KB (375 words) - 08:28, 2 July 2022
- General hints for converting from LaTeX to Context can be found in ...of special things that you may be doing with LaTeX, but are not so obvious to do with ConTeXt.5 KB (733 words) - 17:53, 24 April 2024
- Palatino, designed by Hermann Zapf, is an elegant font. To typeset a document in Palatino: That setup uses Palatino for text and mathematics. To set the mathematics in Euler (also designed by Hermann Zapf),2 KB (281 words) - 20:24, 3 June 2020
- ...aking is performed; to right-align paragraphs, see {{cmd|startalignment}}. To right-align the final words of an otherwise left-aligned line, see {{cmd|wo to level like a hawk. He wakes in the painted arbour that surrounds him with2 KB (294 words) - 14:38, 17 November 2021
- <div class="cd:shortdesc">The command <tt>\inlinerange</tt> is used to refer to numbered lines ...e from a typing that has been marked with a label. It is mostly equivalent to <code>{{cmd|inline}}[ref]</code>; the main difference is that <code>\inline2 KB (299 words) - 14:38, 26 September 2020
- To get a normal sign you could set this with the <code>normal</code> value (Co ...settings, as controlled by {{cmd|setuplanguage}}. When you use |<| and |>| to indicate the subsentence, the proper symbol will be used automatically.4 KB (558 words) - 13:25, 9 August 2020
- To change the font used in the entire document (including headers and footers) ...specify the font size with the the typescript name. For example, to switch to 10pt, use:5 KB (690 words) - 08:35, 7 June 2020
- This example shows how to autolabel figures ...ist Hans answered on 14 may 2021 what you can do with combinations and how to add captions in in a different way:4 KB (475 words) - 09:49, 14 September 2023
- Combinations are ConTeXt's way to align several pictures (preferrably at same size): You define, how much figures in columns * rows you'd like to align.5 KB (530 words) - 23:20, 10 April 2023
- ...cd:description">Middle-align a single line. No line-breaking is performed; to middle-align paragraphs, see {{cmd|startalignment}}. to level like a hawk. He wakes in the painted arbour that surrounds him with2 KB (276 words) - 14:41, 17 November 2021
- ...="cd:description">Left-align a single line. No line-breaking is performed; to left-align paragraphs, see {{cmd|startalignment}}. to level like a hawk. He wakes in the painted arbour that surrounds him with2 KB (277 words) - 16:35, 6 April 2023
- ...umstances, you don’t need to tell ConTeXt how to group text or where to break lines and pages. ConTeXt handles such things automatically. ...aks to get just the effect you’re after. For example, you might want to:5 KB (871 words) - 16:36, 20 October 2020
- # How to replace various syntactic elements using Hpricot1 KB (165 words) - 15:28, 8 June 2020
- Hans has descibed how to work with bold math in [http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/magazines/mag-0005 However, this method only seems to work with lucida fonts. For other fonts (currently only for latin modern an2 KB (300 words) - 08:29, 2 July 2022
- This document is for XML authors who want to use open source software to produce high quality PDF documents--right now.7 KB (1,259 words) - 13:21, 9 August 2020
- installed on your LaTeX system. One of its purposes is to access the (the tfm-files) that allows TeX to use the fonts for typesetting (TeX4 KB (690 words) - 11:35, 8 June 2020
- ...as an embedded scripting language. The LuaTeX project's main objective is to provide an open and configurable variant of TeX while at the same time offe * how [[LuaTeX callbacks|Callbacks]] work in Context1 KB (161 words) - 18:38, 8 June 2020
- ...ogged with too many pages. Nevertheless it has the advantage of being able to go backward through the steps, and the resulted PDF file may be viewed in a ...ple using the Stepper which is buit in ConTeXt. In order to use it one has to add the following lines at the beginning of the source file:2 KB (322 words) - 15:32, 8 June 2020
- Useful links to MathML code generators: * [http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/~distler/blog/itex2MML.html itex2mml] - TeX to MathML conversion2 KB (282 words) - 07:59, 1 July 2022
- ...rule in the left margin next to a block. This environment can be nested up to five levels. It is a special case of sidebar. The sound of a duck is a good demonstration of how different people3 KB (362 words) - 13:25, 14 September 2023
- ...e match the English one. [[User:Hagen|Hans]] provided this example of how to create a new enumeration in ConTeXt, which defines a "Mojcanian" numbering ...; more traditional orderings tend to replace that with a simple <tt>-</tt> to indicate an out-of-range letter.)4 KB (638 words) - 22:14, 29 December 2021
- How to put something (a colon or dot for example) after the float number in a capt Another trick to achieve the same:2 KB (237 words) - 13:23, 9 August 2020
- {{todo|Perhaps give another title to this page, perhaps accented characters}} ...only access 256 glyphs at a time (With XeTeX and LuaTeX, it's over, thanks to UTF-8 support). Well, but even if you could access more of them, a glyph or5 KB (762 words) - 13:25, 9 August 2020
- ...the outermost sheets need an extra half-millimeter or so because they have to fold around the inner sheets. ...{{cmd|definepageshift}} and {{cmd|setuppageshift}} to specify by how much to offset each page on the sheet; see the example.3 KB (348 words) - 16:12, 12 November 2019
- or more terms of the same type to be added or subtracted; a term of type <i>t</i> the only important thing for <code>\dimexpr</code> is to write the dimen value6 KB (881 words) - 16:48, 8 June 2020
- <td>to be executed before each item-caption pair</td> <td>to be executed between each item and its caption</td>3 KB (458 words) - 08:06, 29 June 2020
- ...elper script for all sorts of ConTeXt-related things, from individual runs to managing the installation tree ...being updated version [[Debugging]]: show the nasty details of your code, to understand and tweak ConTeXt typesetting.3 KB (363 words) - 16:38, 9 February 2021
- ...>context</code>. At least try the other Windows installation pages, linked to this page, before following these instructions.}} In order to be able to run ConTeXt under Windows, you will need:9 KB (1,514 words) - 08:27, 2 July 2022
- ...ne, it can be broken in the middle and written on two lines, with a hyphen to indicate the breakoff. This is called '''hyphenation'''. ConTeXt has a grea ...anguage|[nl]}} would be the way to set the language for the whole document to Dutch.6 KB (724 words) - 18:52, 23 January 2023
- writing their own modules. It allows you to set variables in the call and Here's a brief sample explaining how this mechanism works. It consists3 KB (417 words) - 17:21, 8 June 2020
- # '''start-stop''': To apply ''something'' to some text, enclose the text in {{code|\start''something''}} {{code|\stop''s # '''setup''': To configure ''something'' for the rest of the document, use {{code|\setup''so16 KB (2,522 words) - 14:58, 22 October 2020
- The command <tt>\definebodyfontenvironment</tt> is used to set relative font sizes. <table width="100%"><tr><td colspan="2" class="doc3">How should {{cmd|em}} work? Default is {{cmd|sl}}.</td></tr>3 KB (450 words) - 19:18, 10 March 2024
- ...somewhat temporary & incomplete page for those interested in details about how XeTeX deals with input encodings and font encodings. (I've dropped a couple ...t consider this page as a part of official documentation or as a recipe of how things should be done. This information might become obsolete.5 KB (835 words) - 12:51, 7 June 2020
- (this will move to a better place) * rename to install-or-update-context.sh5 KB (707 words) - 08:06, 28 July 2011
- ...he page will be balanced by default, rather than produce full columns next to empty ones. \startcolumns[n=3,separator=rule] % [rule=on] seems to be deprecated3 KB (340 words) - 12:31, 21 August 2020
- documents and publishing them to various output formats. you are to benefit of Muse's editing capacities. Then Muse has to be also11 KB (1,762 words) - 10:58, 2 July 2020
- How to create barcodes from within ConTeXt (MkIV/LMTX)? ** Run `mtxrun --generate` to update the file database.2 KB (243 words) - 14:00, 20 February 2022
- ...etching of spaces. The more stretching you allow, the easier it is for TeX to choose a stretched-out underfull line instead of a margin-invading overfull ...code>\setuptolerance[vertical,...]</code> for column stretching. Don't try to combine these two.2 KB (262 words) - 14:38, 3 December 2021
