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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
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• 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
  1 KB (130 words) - 19:44, 13 January 2020
• 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.
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• Speed
  Tips and tricks to speed up ConTeXt. .... Subsequently cached PDFs are used. Loading PDF is always faster compared to using other formats.
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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.
  7 KB (632 words) - 18:22, 8 June 2020
• 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
  3 KB (375 words) - 08:28, 2 July 2022
• 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
  2 KB (299 words) - 14:38, 26 September 2020
• 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.
  5 KB (530 words) - 23:20, 10 April 2023
• Command/midaligned
  ...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 with
  2 KB (276 words) - 14:41, 17 November 2021
• Command/leftaligned
  ...="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 with
  2 KB (277 words) - 16:35, 6 April 2023
• Delimiter
  ...umstances, you don&rsquo;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&rsquo;re after. For example, you might want to:
  5 KB (871 words) - 16:36, 20 October 2020
• Simple replacements
  # How to replace various syntactic elements using Hpricot
  1 KB (165 words) - 15:28, 8 June 2020
• Bold Math
  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 an
  2 KB (300 words) - 08:29, 2 July 2022
• Getting Started with XML and ConTeXt using TEXML
  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
• Psnfss - Old Content
  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 (TeX
  4 KB (690 words) - 11:35, 8 June 2020
• LuaTeX
  ...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 Context
  1 KB (162 words) - 20:16, 17 May 2024
• Stepper
  ...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
• Command/startmarginrule
  ...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 people
  3 KB (362 words) - 13:25, 14 September 2023
• Math
  ...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
• User-Defined Enumerations
  ...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
• Dotted number in caption
  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
• Faking characters
  {{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 or
  5 KB (762 words) - 13:25, 9 August 2020
• Command/setuppageshift
  ...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
• Expressions
  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 value
  6 KB (881 words) - 16:48, 8 June 2020
• Command/setupcombination
  <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
• Tools
  ...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
• Windows Installation
  ...>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
• Module Parameters
  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 consists
  3 KB (417 words) - 17:21, 8 June 2020
• Hyphenation
  ...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
• Introduction
  # '''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
  16 KB (2,522 words) - 14:58, 22 October 2020
• Command/definebodyfontenvironment
  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
• Encodings and Regimes in XeTeX
  ...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
• ConTeXt Standalone/TODO
  (this will move to a better place) * rename to install-or-update-context.sh
  5 KB (707 words) - 08:06, 28 July 2011
• Command/ startmixedcolumns
  ...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 deprecated
  3 KB (340 words) - 12:31, 21 August 2020
• Emacs-muse
  documents and publishing them to various output formats. you are to benefit of Muse's editing capacities. Then Muse has to be also
  11 KB (1,762 words) - 10:58, 2 July 2020
• Barcodes
  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
• Command old/setuptolerance
  ...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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• Gnuplot Development
  == What has to be added to m-gnuplot.tex to support ConTeXt terminal == == What has to be added to context.trm ==
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