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• Simple Typescript Example
  ...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:
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• Command/definevspacing
  ...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 c
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• Last Head Number
  To access the last head number in a document one can use: The following example from the mailing list demonstrates how to use it.
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• This Way - My Way
  ...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 boxes
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• Animation
  ...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:
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• Command/startcomponent
  ...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 (w
  2 KB (263 words) - 13:11, 6 September 2020
• IRC
  ...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 secti
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• Beginner's Manual
  {{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 to
  3 KB (377 words) - 16:17, 8 June 2020
• Command/dorecurse
  <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
• Command/setupalign
  |right-aligned (Again, better to not use <code>left</code>.) |Flush to inner margin.
  4 KB (543 words) - 16:23, 14 April 2024
• Command/showlayout
  <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 area
  2 KB (226 words) - 14:06, 30 November 2021
• LMTX
  ...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
• PdfTeX - Old Content
  {{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.
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• Command/hyphenation
  <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 that
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• MathML
  * [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 MathML
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• Command/recursedepth
  ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n. ** {{cmd|exitloop}} to exit a loop.
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• Mac Installation
  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 r
  3 KB (531 words) - 13:31, 11 July 2021
• Command/exitloopnow
  ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n. ** {{cmd|exitloop}} to exit a loop.
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• Document Titles
  < [[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.
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• LuaTeX callbacks
  This page is dedicated to collecting all available information on how to achieve in Context when you would resort to callbacks to do the same
  2 KB (234 words) - 17:01, 8 June 2020
• Command/recurselevel
  Counting up to 3: ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.
  2 KB (218 words) - 16:30, 11 November 2019
• Command/exitloop
  ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n. ** {{cmd|exitloop}} to exit a loop.
  2 KB (202 words) - 16:26, 11 November 2019
• Windows Installation new
  ...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:
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• Command/doloop
  <td>Commands or text to repeat</td> ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.
  2 KB (245 words) - 16:22, 11 November 2019
• Indentation
  ...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.
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• Fontfeaturefiles
  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
• Custom pretty printer
  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.
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• Math with newmat
  ...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
• Standardmakeup background
  == 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 background
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• Command/dostepwiserecurse
  <td>Commands or text to repeat</td> ** {{cmd|dorecurse}} for iterating from 1 to n.
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• Old: A Beginner's Guide to Using Fonts in Mark IV
  ...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 the
  3 KB (412 words) - 15:06, 8 June 2020
• French Punctuation
  useless unit: how about 0.1 * fontsize useless unit: how about 0.1 * fontsize
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• Command/definesymbol
  % the following example shows how to define symbols which scale with the
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• Command/startsectionblockenvironment
  ...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 blocks
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• Debugging
  ...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
• Speed
  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
• Widows and orphans control
  ...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
• Fonts/Typescripts examples/Palatino Linotype Typescript
  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 ligatures
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• Fonts - Old Content
  = 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 {{s
  6 KB (976 words) - 08:26, 2 July 2022
• Revision and translations of “ConTeXt, an excursion”
  ...://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.
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• Some Basic Commands
  # '''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''so
  9 KB (1,275 words) - 22:48, 21 October 2020
• Languages
  = Two commands to set up the language aspects= :: to set the language of auto-generated language elements, like the title of the
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• Palatino with Euler for Math - Old Content
  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
• From LaTeX to ConTeXt
  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.
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• Command/rightaligned
  ...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 with
  2 KB (294 words) - 14:38, 17 November 2021
• Command/inlinerange
  <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>\inline
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• Compound words
  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.
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• Fonts/Use fonts distributed with ConTeXt
  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
• Command/startcombination
  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
  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.
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