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  • ...]''' (because paragraphs, emphasis, verbatims, quotes, etc also contribute to the structure of your documents). ...s a [[Dictionary]] of typographical terms. There are also a few references to the [[History of TeX]] (2007); it would benefit from an update.
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  • If you want to refer to any text element, you must first define the target's reference label. All t Then you can refer to this spot with
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  • The first (and optional) argument can be used to specify the element, ...a heading should be changed, the name of it, e.g. chapter or section needs to be specified.
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  • ...n compile a document with a few mouse-clicks. If this is not what you want to do, see the [[Installation]] page instead. * '''SciTE''' Editor: The easiest way is to get Troy Simpson's [http://opensource.ebswift.com/SciTEInstaller/ Windows i
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  • straightforward way to accomplish the same thing in ConTeXt is to Note how both page dimensions (the physical height of a page) and
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  • An example on how to generate a sorted list of all authors contributed to a conference proceeding.
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  • ...often the environment has been loaded, and it is used when printing output to stderr/the log file, as follows:
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  • ...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.
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  • ...following example (from the manual, modified by Aditya Mahajan) shows how to avoid those problems.
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  • You should not normally have to use this command. Links are better made using {{cmd|in}} or {{cmd|at}}, whi ...mmand for building references, this command is useful. You might also want to use the {{cmd|goto}} command for making the reference clickable.
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  • = How PDF Handles Multimedia = ...n include multimedia files in PDF documents. But this inclusion depends on how PDF handles multimedia.
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  • ...ce for use within a typescript. This typeface links a style (rm, ss, etc.) to an actual font family (or font set). The second argument tells which style to define a typeface for.
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  • ...:description">Predefine reference text, so that for example you won't have to type <code>\in{Equation}[eq:somelabel]</code> all the time. (the page number is off-by-one because of how the wiki creates its bitmaps)
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  • <td>''names of attribute containing URL of file to include, separated by pipes. Default:'' {{code|href}}</td> ...}}. External files are merged in at every {{code|include}} tag; which file to merge in is determined by looking at the {{code|filename}} attribute; if th
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  • This page describes how to configure and persist changes to default settings, including directory paths. For the purposes of this wiki Do not change this file as upgrading ConTeXt overwrites these files. To customize <tt>texmf.cnf</tt>, change the variables as noted in the followin
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  • ...ed with ConTeXt. There will also be a list of predefined commands specific to single styles. {{todo|page in progress - feel free to contribute
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  • The <code>\externalfigure</code> command is used to include an external figure/movie inside ConTeXt. Includes both local files The simplest way to insert an image is to use:
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  • ! style="width: 50%"| How-to guides (goals) ...couple of styles for an educational math book.The macros provide you a way to visualize steps in for instance solving equations.
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  • The {{cmd|scale}} command is all-purpose, you can scale by factors or to a defined size. ...rs the contents. If you want to have a longer paragraph mirrored, you have to make a <code>\vbox</code> manually.
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  • ...certain amount of technical skills and knowledge. This article is intended to provide necessary help in the activities. ...o the built of OS X you are using. Proceed to '''Apple Support''' in order to receive special instructions.
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  • ...used for the 'file path' portion of the URL, if you want. This dates back to when hyperlink support in ...to dereference them by their identifier wherever you please. Don't forget to enable interaction for clickable WWW-look-and-feel.
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  • ...hive.contextgarden.net/message/20100403.155801.7098c48a.en.html this poem] to the mailing list Fifty emails, in your inbox to see
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  • nice default font to add to the next ConTeXt distribution. In the meantime: 4. If texfont does not work, you will have to do more work-> the zip package
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  • ...ded manually whenever possible (nice if it could be automated, but no idea how) ...ible. If they're still not up to date for your platform and you know where to find them, please notify us, we will fix that. We might provide XeTeX and L
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  • ...nism in xml too. The example was provided by Thomas Schmitz. First we show how a table looks like in xml: We need to map these elements to setups:
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  • Please note that this information is relevant to mkii. If you are using mkiv, see [[Bibliography]]. ...vides the {{cmd|cite}} and {{cmd|placepublications}} commands, in addition to some setup commands, for collecting and referencing bibliography. Single re
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  • have to generate the PS format yourself and submit that. If that were users get. So you need a way to submit the source code along with
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  • This is a template to print DIN lang folders. %% This measure shows how much shorter the folded page is.
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  • -->Limit the text inside the header to a certain dimension. <!-- The first argument is assumed to be "text" when it is left out. Text sets the position of the header and/or
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  • ...sed on the 6th of August, 2007. Currently the easiest way to try it out is to install [[ConTeXt Standalone]]. Mark VI is ''identical to Mark IV'' in every respect, except that when you define a new macro you can
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  • Each paragraph gets numbered started by each title. In order to link to a paragraph it can be reference by the optional parameter <code>reference=. Here how a single paragraph with a title looks like:
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  • ...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 long
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  • ...e using doublestroke fonts as the blackboard font, there is really no need to use the blackboard fonts separately; so, the math typescript is overwritten
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  • ...ac OS X. In particular it describes how to configure some GUI applications to work well with standalone. ...one]]. Some instructions on this page may cause difficulties that are hard to overcome.)
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  • To make the examples on this page work, you need Gnuplot 4.6.0 or later (or se Calling gnuplot to create the graphic and postprocessing should happen automatically.
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  • ...rst step is to declare the storage locations of the fonts you want ConTeXt to consider. ** it helps the algorithms to deal with the incredibly wide variety of fonts's variables and parameters.
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  • ...out#Grid Setups|{{cmd|setuplayout|link=no}}]], and also in [[snaptogrid]] (to merge ?) ...ad onto the grid. The solution is to frame the structure head and instruct to typeset the first line on the grid.
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  • To typeset code inside the paragraph, you have the command <code>\type</code>. To have colored code, you need to use <code>\definetype[NAME][option=TEX]</code> and use it with the name you
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  • <td width="80%" class="doc2">aspect ratio is kept, the image is scaled to the smaller (fitted) variant</td> <td width="80%" class="doc2">aspect ratio is kept, the image is scaled to the bigger (oversized) variant</td>
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  • to use it in your TeX-document. For your convenience here an example of how to use the macros with Git [http://git-scm.com/].
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  • ...rating systems (e.g. Latin-1, Mac Roman, Windows 1252, ISO-8859-#) attempt to shoehorn a set of characters into eight bytes. As a result, working with [[pdfTeX]] (MkII) you need to make a choice which input encoding ('''regime''') or font/output encoding (
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  • =Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed= (with apologies to Maimonides)
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  • ...o account, the total size of the format file is still very acceptable. Now how are these assignments done. Again, the label identifies the category a variable belongs to. The second argument can be a comma separated list of assignments. Duplicat
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  • ConTeXt [[Mark IV]] does not use the kpathsea library to find files and configuration settings. It follows that running mktexlsr or ...t' directly. At most, you could run `luatools --generate; context --make` to deal with any tlmgr updates you may have performed since installing TeX Liv
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  • ...his was an advantage, because floating point arithmetic was not guaranteed to be consistent across platforms. ...the native TeX method to initialise a dimension variable. The requirement to explicitly initialize your dimension variables is a bit clunky, but this me
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  • ...lays are predefined snippets that you can stack on each other. In contrast to [[Layers|layers]], which regard whole pages, overlays mostly are only singl Another use for overlays is for adding a graphic to every page to indicate chapters (sometimes known as a [[Thumb index|thumb index]]).
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  • You can also have a look to the other ConTeXt Community '''[[Web_resources|Web resources]]'''. = Some guidelines for writing to the mailing list =
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  • We have a situation where hyphenation is an issue, due to a 2-column been fixing manually by using <code>\hbox{...}</code> to prevent hyphenation at the
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  • ...nally, {{cmd|startlines}} has some arguments that can be used to configure how the lines of text look, such as their indentation patterns. As usual in Con For example, to set an excerpt from ''The Monks and the Giants'' by John Hookham Frere:
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  • ...you are working on a project with a single output file, it may be simpler to use {{cmd|startdocument}} (perhaps in combination with {{cmd|usemodule}} or If you use the same layout for several related products, it may make sense to use the project support in ConTeXt. You then save your layout settings as a
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  • \rightaligned{--- Gerald Durrell, {\it Three Singles to Adventure}} This is how \quotation{Watership Down}, by Richard Adams, starts:
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  • '''WARNING: this page has to be finished first, than reviewed! Don't rely on actual information.''' ...rcs/setup-en.pdf setup-en.pdf] (and appropriate language variants) most up-to-date ConTeXt command reference (but without explanations).
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  • (Side-note the usage of line breaks and blank lines in the source code and how they alter the PDF product.) Note the usage of commenting (using the percent sign [<code>%</code>]) to avoid unwanted spacing that occurs when using line breaks, especially withi
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  • \hbox to \hsize{\hss\field[ConTeXt]\hss\field[PPCHTEX]\hss\field[TeXUtil]\hss} As usual, first you need to define a class of fields ({{cmd|setupfield}}). Then you define the (invisib
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  • % force an invisible space to show top of table frame: ...ian [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Volterra Vito Volterra] in relation to the Volterra integral equations.
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  • The command {{cmd|setupinitial}} detailed here is used to customize this decorative first letter(s) at the start of chapters, section ...mber of lines in the paragraph that the initial should occupy. It defaults to 3. The size of the initial is adapted accordingly, but it can be changed wi
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  • ...the documentation for the command interface, and can be used as a platform to produce many output formats. ...e one, central document where there is a place for all of this information to go.
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  • The following code is an example of how to draw a graphic on every page of a document. The graphic (a grey rectangle) \vbox to \paperheight \bgroup
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  • To get the default table of contents use: % alternative=c, space to the page number is filled with dots
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  • After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing pages in fullscreen mode. This is especially appealing when you want to
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  • ** access to file attachments (lower priority) * for '''annotations''' (correction workflow; generally just nice to have):
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  • Ligatures are combinations of letters that use different glyph shapes to avoid clashing of parts like i-dots and f-arcs. Many fonts contain at least = Traditional TeX methods to break ligatures =
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  • A few general observations to help you getting started: ...ur xml elements within Lua; <code>lxml...</code> commands pass the content to ConTeXt and typeset it.
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  • {{todo|This FAQ needs to have a lot of things worked on. To avoid clutter from repeated TODO tags, just note missing answers with "..." :* and a set of software and tools for moving from these macros to high-quality digital documents.
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  • ...er title centered, page number in outer margin.) Hans posted this solution to the list: ...e using {{cmd|setupuserpagenumber}}[numberconversion=...] then you'll want to use {{cmd|userpagenumber}} instead.
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  • ...tensive. Start with '''Overview'''. The other manuals '''go into detail''' to understand the foundations, explore advanced features, modify or write feat * You can also have a look to the other ConTeXt Community '''[[Web_resources|Web resources]]''' like [[We
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  • %%K Here we use the plain \TeX\ command \phantom{} in order to have %\SteppingSlidefalse %%K this is when you want to print the slides
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  • To see if it's installed on your system run ...] installation. The problem with this method is that you'll probably have to redo the installation once a year, when the new TeX Live DVD comes out.
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  • ...tanding anything they were able to locate a LaTeX macro that could be used to inspect the next character. ...s meaning with another undefined one, aptly named <code>\undefined</code>. To guarantee correct working of this set of macros, <code>\undefined</code> ma
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  • ...italic slant, color/weight) are really hard to quantify, and are best left to the typographer's artistry. ...round an x-height of 6.0 pt for the same body font size. Following me yet? How about this:
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  • ...use that’s the only way to split TeX and Metapost while still allowing one to use (an obscure example)'' ...d time compared to the binaries. Should anyone need newer files, feel free to complain and we will add them.''
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  • The ConTeXtXML extension is a new wiki feature specifically designed to edit the ConTeXt command reference pages (the ones that live under the `/Co ...of new wiki pages below `/Command/`, and using a ContentHandler extension to maintain those pages. The text model of those pages is `contextxml`, which
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  • ...r documentation efforts like a proper reference manual. More details about how that all works can be found in the [[Extension:ConTeXtXML | ConTeXtXML exte ...typically by a command whose name starts with `\define...`. Users are free to define their own commands and environments that way, but some such are in f
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  • ...tly the {{cmd|in}} and {{cmd|at}} commands) clickable. A page is dedicated to this system of '''[[References]]'''. ...lor</tt> (links to the same page) properties. Link style is by default set to bold.
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  • .../adityam.github.io/context-blog/post/presentation-40-commits-redux/ on how to create slides in ConTeXt] in 40 commits. ...head with underlining to width of last line|Section head with underlining to width of last line]]
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  • Implements a command that causes the commands specified in its argument to be expanded after the current page is output. ConTeXt gives finer control u ...ns are possible with {{cmd|numexpr}} or {{cmd|dimexpr}}, also in arguments to counters.
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  • Copy and paste the example code in its own file then run ConTeXt to see the output: % Define how the columns appear on both left and right pages.
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  • ...Engines/Inactive/ConTeXt-Sync'', and ''ExternalEditorScripts'' if you plan to use TeXShop as a previewer for an external editor. ...most up to date ConTeXt release (see [[Installation]]). For that, you need to perform the following one-time set up:
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  • ...s done in some presets by Hans, but there are a few tricks needed in order to activate the feature. ...package also includes a protrusion feature, and may be known by that name to a certain audience.
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  • ...ing a more extensive article about math arrows in general, you're wellcome to do so. The simplest way to write vectors is to use <code>\vec</code>:
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  • ...ean Latin language, the best way to switch from one language to another is to use the command : ==How to achieve it ==
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  • ...ithub.com/orbitalquark/textadept/releases/ Download] and extract Textadept to a folder of your choice. 2. Use <code>textadept.exe</code> from the extracted folder to start Textadept.
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  • ...containing data (ones, ceros, or anything) and their groupings, with easy to use syntax. It supports larger than four variable maps; and formulas, or an To draw a Karnaugh map, the <code>karnaugh</code> environment is used, the opt
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  • * [[Setups]]: An alternative to macros for storing chunks of code * [[Module Parameters]]: Passing parameters to modules.
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  • <div class="cd:shortdesc">{{cmd|setuphead}} is used to configure headings and titles. Being structuring elements of any document, <td width="80%" class="doc2">expands the xml reference to actual content for title and bookmark
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  • To produce a file ready for a clean PDF separation process at your print house ...t colour. Note that the name cannot contain spaces or numbers (but we come to that later):
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  • ...to share the code. There is nothing special in it, but it might be useful to beginners. The book was compiled in Mk II, of course. Anything slightly non ...e first one at the bottom of the line, the second one high (don't know how to show that here). I wanted "English" quotes and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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  • structured data to the <code>.tuc</code> file. This limitation can be The ''name'' field is equivalent to the first argument of
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  • There's also a newer and more detailed wiki page on how to install ConTeXt and SciTe on a machine that doesn't use other TeX distribut ...unning programs. The ConTeXt distribution includes files which can be used to configure SciTE for editing and building ConTeXt documents.
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  • ...long continuous strings (such as SHA512 keys or DNA sequences) might have to be broken after any character, independent from the current hyphenation sch ...hecked).<ref>There might be an issue with the custom hyphenator that needs to be reviewed, since the first characters in the new line are missing.
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  • The easier route than what's on this page is to install the [http://tug.org/gentium/ gentium-tug package]. In TeX Live on L ...free font with a very wide collection of Latin and Greek glyphs (Cyrillic to come later). It can be downloaded from the SIL web page: http://scripts.sil
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  • Don't try to type quotation marks, but use logical markup! The following commands can be used to automatically nest double and single quotes.
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  • * the user doesn’t need to write [[Fonts/Fonts_in_LuaTeX#The_standard_way:_Typescripts|typescripts]]; * the interface is much easier to use.
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  • The general steps to install ConTeXt LMTX are as follows: See the next sections for instructions specific to various platforms.
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  • It might take some time to propagate the changes and auto-update this page :) ...sed to compile pdfTeX and XeTeX, but stopped doing so as there was no need to use a version newer than what's in TeX Live.
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  • are not: you must order them from TUG or another source to actually ...entioned that otf package of these fonts is imminent and thus it is better to wait for that and forget about the type1 versions.}}
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  • '''TeX Live''' is a distribution that allows you to install TeX and friends on most operating systems. It comes with many, many There is a number of ways to install TeX Live on your computer:
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  • non-programmer user it is amazingly easy to configure. Like to local utf-8 support which Scintilla does not support).
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  • ...is an effort to understand how different kinds of commands are expressed, to help support the effort of generated a DITA document set. ...to gather and process most of data from `context-en.xml`; for the queries that
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  • ...ned by Giuseppe Bilotta, is a project whose aim is to provide an extension to Knuth's TeX comprising both Omega 1.15 and e-TeX 2.1 features. Its main goa * [[Aleph_Guide|Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed]] on this wiki.
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