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- ...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 (504 words) - 20:14, 17 May 2024
- ...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
- ...nl/general/magazines/mag-0000.pdf Introduction] : for what is ThisWay, how to write a MyWay ...w.pragma-ade.nl/general/magazines/mag-0007.pdf Faking Text and More] : how to make fake text of black or colored boxes4 KB (563 words) - 10:03, 19 May 2024
- ...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
- ...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
- ...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
- * [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 (158 words) - 14:46, 11 May 2024
- ** {{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
- <td>Commands or text to repeat</td> ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.2 KB (245 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
- ...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
- 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
- ...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 (244 words) - 22:23, 11 May 2024
- == 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
- <td>Commands or text to repeat</td> ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.2 KB (311 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
- ...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
- useless unit: how about 0.1 * fontsize useless unit: how about 0.1 * fontsize2 KB (324 words) - 14:22, 8 June 2020
- % the following example shows how to define symbols which scale with the1 KB (130 words) - 19:44, 13 January 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) - 21:12, 17 May 2024
- = 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
- 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
- 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 (734 words) - 19:54, 17 May 2024
- ...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) - 18:22, 17 May 2024
- 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 (162 words) - 20:16, 17 May 2024
- ...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
- ...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
- ...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.7 KB (1,025 words) - 19:10, 13 May 2024
- ...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
- 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
- ...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
- # '''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
- == What has to be added to m-gnuplot.tex to support ConTeXt terminal == == What has to be added to context.trm ==2 KB (342 words) - 14:25, 8 June 2020
- ...]''' (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.3 KB (342 words) - 20:52, 17 May 2024
- 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 with8 KB (1,061 words) - 20:11, 8 June 2020
- 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.3 KB (389 words) - 13:21, 9 August 2020
- ...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 i5 KB (875 words) - 16:01, 20 November 2012
- straightforward way to accomplish the same thing in ConTeXt is to Note how both page dimensions (the physical height of a page) and12 KB (1,991 words) - 14:55, 22 September 2020
- An example on how to generate a sorted list of all authors contributed to a conference proceeding.2 KB (212 words) - 14:24, 8 June 2020
- ...often the environment has been loaded, and it is used when printing output to stderr/the log file, as follows:2 KB (304 words) - 13:14, 6 September 2020
- ...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.3 KB (394 words) - 21:32, 5 December 2021
- ...following example (from the manual, modified by Aditya Mahajan) shows how to avoid those problems.2 KB (230 words) - 15:03, 8 June 2020
- 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.3 KB (470 words) - 18:13, 5 September 2020
- = How PDF Handles Multimedia = ...n include multimedia files in PDF documents. But this inclusion depends on how PDF handles multimedia.6 KB (942 words) - 17:28, 17 October 2023
- ...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.3 KB (483 words) - 12:05, 3 July 2020
- ...: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)2 KB (267 words) - 10:05, 29 October 2021
- <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 th3 KB (395 words) - 17:16, 17 December 2012
- 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 followin3 KB (456 words) - 21:17, 6 April 2021
- ...ed with ConTeXt. There will also be a list of predefined commands specific to single styles. {{todo|page in progress - feel free to contribute8 KB (980 words) - 08:26, 2 July 2022
- 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:12 KB (1,743 words) - 20:50, 5 March 2024
- ! 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.2 KB (312 words) - 13:02, 18 May 2024
- 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.6 KB (817 words) - 17:44, 10 February 2024
- ...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.3 KB (453 words) - 13:40, 11 July 2021
