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• Command/setupnumbering
  <td class="cmd">[[Command/keyword:way|way]]</td> \setupnumbering[way=bysection]
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• Command/startalignment
  The environment <tt>\startalignment ... \stopalignment</tt> is used for ... ...{{cmd|startalignment}}<code>...\stopalignment</code>. For a description of the keys, see {{cmd|setupalign}}.
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• How to make a MyWay
  ...up by the {{code|magazine-basic}} module. This style should be used for My Way articles only, since using it for other documents might confuse readers in Formatting an article for My Way is simple. Just do three things:
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• Command/Context
  <h1 class="command">\Context</h1> ...class="cd:shortdesc">The command <tt>\Context</tt> typesets an alternative ConTeXt logo.
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• Command/setuppagenumber
  <td class="cmd">way</td> ...text''' byblock bychapter ... — ''reset the counter to one at the start of the text / every block/chapter/section/...</td>
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• Easing into ConTeXt (ConTeXt 101)
  ...to the inner works of the system, when things are supposed to be easier in ConTeXt. ...all, you can do most things mentioned in [[http://live.contextgarden.net/ ConTeXt online]]
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• Web resources
  * Main ConTeXt site at [http://www.pragma-ade.nl/ Pragma ADE] ([http://context.aanhet.net/ Taco's mirror], [http://mirror.contextgarden.net mirror at cont * AUCTeX, Emacs TeX/ConTeXt/LaTex mode: [http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/]
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• Command/setupformulae
  ..., but does not prefix the numbers with the section number, to do that, use the following options: \setupformulae[way=bysection,prefixsegments=section]
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• OpenBSD installation
  ...cribed on this page in the future. The full installation is ~210M (without the 3rd party modules ~185M). $ mkdir $HOME/context
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• Indent
  <context source=yes> </context>
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• DocBook
  ...rge.net/ DocBook] to ConTeXt, since the usual way via XSL-FO can’t provide the same typographical quality. Those who do it successfully every day probably ...Announcement & Documentation] / [https://github.com/doctribute/docbook-to-context-xsl-stylesheets Sources on GitHub].
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• Command/setupcaptions
  <td class="cmd">[[Command/keyword:way|way]]</td> ...ion={right,low}]</code> adjusts the caption position to be to the right of the figure and in a low vertical position.
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• Command/startbackground
  The environment <tt>\startbackground ... \stopbackground</tt> is used for backg <div class="cd:description">This is the old way to do backgrounds behind text.
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• Command/setupcounter
  The command <tt>\setupcounter</tt> is used to configure a counter. <td valign="top" class="arg2">way</td><td>
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• Command/definedfont
  ...ediately switches to that font. The identifier works in the same way as the second argument to {{cmd|definefontsynonym}}: you can use either a font syn == Help from ConTeXt-Mailinglist/Forum ==
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• Counters
  < [[Main Page]] | [[Inside ConTeXt]] > ...ides a higher layer of API to access various counters. For example, to set the page number to a certain value use
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• Sciences
  ...0530075041!Mathalign.pdf 2010 - <i>Using \startalign and friends</i>] (My Way article) * The [[Math | Mathematics central page]]
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• This Way - My Way
  ...ce.contextgarden.net/doc/context/documents/general/magazines available] in the distribution: ...ttp://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/magazines/mag-0004.pdf 2003 - Manipulating the foreground] : combining PDF pages</li>
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• Command/setuparranging
  ...s per sheet, in order to create e.g. book signatures. For a description of the various options, see [[Imposition]]. <context source="yes" text="results in">
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• Article Abstracts
  < [[From LaTeX to ConTeXt]] | [[Document Titles]] > ...ingle-column article, it is set somewhat narrower than the main text, with the word "Abstract" centered above it.
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• Command/installcommandhandler
  The generalized way to install a new command, and the accompanying <code>\setup...</code> command, and handlers, etc. Defines the following commands:
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• Command/placeframed
  <div class="cd:shortdesc">The command <tt>\placeframed</tt> is an alternative way of using {{gen|framed}} instances. <h2>Help from ConTeXt-Mailinglist/Forum</h2>
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• Math with amsl
  ...han the '''amsl''' module, and provide better integration with the rest of ConTeXt package.}} ...pe Bilotta ([[User: Oblomov|Oblomov]]) is intended to provide AMS math for ConTeXt, similar to AMS-LaTeX.
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• Hiding Content
  ...he same amount of space as that content would need if typeset in the usual way. ...list] Hans suggested many different ways (astonishing easy to use) to hide the content in a PDF document. Sadly, most of them are viewer-dependent.
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• Custom Configuration
  ...ng directory paths. For the purposes of this wiki page, it is assumed that ConTeXt is installed at: /opt/context
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• Console Mode
  ...way to explore TeXing, as there's no need to switch between the editor and the processor to experiment. ...programming; one can define an macro, and then process it and investigate the results with <code>\show</code>, <code>\showthe</code>, <code>\message</cod
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• Proclaim
  ...fer to them through cross referencing, and somehow it has disappeared from ConTeXt. ...he order in which they appear, here is a solution which works very well in ConTeXt Mark II. (For a solution with Mark IV see below.)
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• Command/starthanging
  ...</tt> is used to hang the start of a paragraph of text around an object in the style of a drop-cap. ...="2" class="doc1">The space between the edge of the image and the start of the text. </td></tr>
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• Command/setupscale
  The command <tt>\setupscale</tt> is used to define the general behaviour of {{cmd|scale}}. ...">the factor settings take the enclosing environment into account, in some way (?)</td></tr>
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• Command/cldcommand
  <td>''a valid way to end `context.` in Lua''</td> Execute a ConTeXt command via lookup in the {{code|context}} table in LuaTeX. Defined as follows:
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• CLD
  '''ConTeXt Lua Documents''' (CLD) are way to access TeX from inside Lua scripts; they provide means to typeset docume Internally, the Lua commands are mapped onto their ConTeXt and TeX counterparts.
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• MathML
  MathML is the "native" ConTeXt way of math. Here's the docs: * [[manual:mmlexamp.pdf|MathML in ConTeXt (examples)]] by Pragma
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• Command/startdocument
  <div class="cd:shortdesc">The environment <tt>\startdocument ... \stopdocument</tt> adds option processin ...ows you to do this either directly by passing arbitrary keys and values to the command itself, or via {{cmd|setupdocument}}.
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• LuaTeX callbacks
  The '''callback''' system from LuaTeX has been disabled. Instead, Context defines ''actions'' that must be registered through an
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• Command/ starttabulate
  The instances of <tt>\start<i>tabulate</i> ... \stop<i>tabulate</i></tt> are u <context source="yes">
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• Debian installation
  ...packages from Debian/unstable, [[ConTeXt Standalone]], or at least install the latest version of [[TeX Live]] with [[TLContrib]] manually.}} == Install the ConTeXt packages ==
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• Command/definefont
  This macro defines a font with the same name as the first argument and you can use its name as an identifier to select that fo The second argument works in the same way as the second argument to \definefontsynonym: you can use either a font synonym or
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• Right and left
  The basic commands are {{cmd|setupalign}} for the whole document, and {{cmd|startalignment}} for a given block. Additional [[ ...nge it, because changing it would break backward compatibility with all of the existing documents that use it.
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• Command/starttable
  ...ironment <tt>\starttable ... \stoptable</tt> is an old and nearly obsolete way to handle tabular material ...template using column separators <code>|</code> and format keys, or using the name of a defined table template (see {{cmd|definetabletemplate}}).
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• Command/ startframedtext
  The instances of <tt>\start<i>framedtext</i> ... \stop<i>framedtext</i></tt> a <td class="doc1">whatever the surrounding default is</td>
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• Command/setupfootnotes
  <td class="cmd">[[Command/keyword:way|way]]</td> ...note blocks (which may contain multiple footnotes), and some properties of the note marks in that block.
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• Getting Started with XML and ConTeXt using TEXML
  in the Formatting Object language, or FO. FO would allow me to the cumbersome and unfamiliar syntax of TeX. It would
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• Command/placeinitial
  ...known as drop caps, dropped caps, or versals) can be made in ConTeXt using the {{cmd|placeinitial}} command detailed here. <div class="cd:description"><!-- the long description of the command goes here -->
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• Command/definefontfeature
  ...at way, the OTF features you (in)activate are added to the ones already in the set. Add {{code|1=onum=yes}} to the default feature set:
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• Paragraph Enumeration
  ...has a built-in mechanism for paragraph numbering, which places numbers in the margin. This is accessed with {{cmd|setupparagraphnumbering}}. ...block of thought’ paragraphs that can contain multiple TeX paragraphs, see the {{module|pararef}} module described at [[Paragraph Referencing]].
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• Command/defineindenting
  Define a way to start a paragraph with an indent, and some text inside the indent. MkII only! <context source=yes>
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• Introduction
  ...em quite natural. In this introduction, we&rsquo;ll look at two aspects of ConTeXt&rsquo;s structure: # the three main types of commands
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• Verse
  ...usual in ConTeXt, these arguments can be separated and applied throughout the document with {{cmd|setuplines}} (and optionally {{cmd|definelines}}). For example, to set an excerpt from ''The Monks and the Giants'' by John Hookham Frere:
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• Some Basic Commands
  There are three main types of commands in ConTeXt: # '''start-stop''': To apply ''something'' to some text, enclose the text in {{code|\start''something''}} {{code|\stop''something''}}.
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• Command/setupnarrower
  .../code> for <code>right</code>, but you need no longer specify the width of the extra margin(s) requested. The use of narrower is a bit abnormal.
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• Command/defineenumeration
  ...For example, if you want numbered remarks in your document you can define the environment as follows: after=\blank] % Blank line after the remark.
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• ConTeXt Standalone/TODO
  < [[ConTeXt Standalone]] * rename to install-or-update-context.sh
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• Update Hints
  ''Hans Hagen wrote in the mailing list at 2004-10-25:'' ...the <tt>../scripts</tt> path instead of under package entries (like <tt>../context</tt>).
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• Command Syntax
  \command{the command works with its parameter(s)} | <code>{ }</code> || scope or range of the command (if applicable)
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• Math/Display
  <context source="yes" text="This, when typeset, produces the following:"> The famous result (once more) is given by
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• CWEB
  ...m-cweb seems to be broken. Take the wc.tex from the example directory from the cweb distribution (made with <tt>cweave wc.w</tt>) and you should be able t but ConTeXt is in an endless loop at:
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• Posting on arxiv.org
  ...//arxiv.org arXiv.org] is a worldwide, open-access preprint server. It is the primary means of scholarly communication in many subfields of physics. It a == Why should ConTeXt users care about this page? ==
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• Multimedia Inclusion
  ConTeXt LMTX can include multimedia files in PDF documents. But this inclusion depe Renditions were the standard way of handling multimedia in PDF–1.7.
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• Stepper
  ...s it has the advantage of being able to go backward through the steps, and the resulted PDF file may be viewed in any PDF viewer. ...In order to use it one has to add the following lines at the beginning of the source file:
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• CudaText
  ...ten in Object Pascal and depends on the Python engine which is included in the Windows version. [[File:cudatext01.jpg|780px|Main view of CudaText with ConTeXt input]]
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• Math
  ...l those features. In addition to these, ConTeXt adds lot of macros to make the typesetting of mathematics easier. ...called inline math; while mathematical expressions that break the flow of the text (such as formulas or equations) are called display math. TeX takes car
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• Command/commalistsentence
  ...separator of the items and have a distinct separator for the last item of the list. ...he separator for each item, and the separator between the last element and the one preceding it. This item is optional. </td></tr>
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• Sidenotes style
  ...omas/TeX-sidenotes TeX-sidenotes]. Many thanks to the mailing list for all the help with it. Load the module with the layout and the helper macros:
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• Windows Installation
  ...exexec</code>, in MK IV it is (usually) <code>context</code>. At least try the other Windows installation pages, linked to this page, before following the In order to be able to run ConTeXt under Windows, you will need:
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• Command/definemeasure
  The command <tt>\definemeasure</tt> provides a clean way for defining dimensions. <div class="cd:description"><!-- the long description of the command goes here -->
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• pm39 tree sitter parser
  Notes and such about the Tree-Sitter ConTeXt parser. Version 0.6 of the <code>tree-sitter-context_en</code> parser supports the following features:
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• From LaTeX to ConTeXt
  General hints for converting from LaTeX to Context can be found in * [http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/LaTeX2ConTeXt.pdf LaTeX in proper ConTeXt] by [http://www.berenddeboer.net/ Berend de Boer]
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• Math/Vectors
  ...ut Math and arrows used for vectors, as in <context>$\overrightarrow{AB}$</context>. === \vec, <context>$\vec{\strut}$</context> ===
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• Wrapping
  ...A sequences) might have to be broken after any character, independent from the current hyphenation scheme. ...custom hyphenator that needs to be reviewed, since the first characters in the new line are missing.
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• LaTeX Math in ConTeXt
  ...lides to go with a LaTeX article would require completely rewriting all of the equations. ...ons into ConTeXt documents. Eventually, they will end up in a third-party ConTeXt package (<i>or such is my intent --Brooks Moses</i>), but for now they are
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• Installing a TrueType font, step by step - Old Content
  {{note | The contents of this page are OLD, from before ConTeXt MKIV. It might need a bit of updating... The easier route than what's on this page is to install the [http://tug.org/gentium/ gentium-tug package]. In TeX Live on Linux, type
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• Mac Installation
  ...or all those that want the most current versions or latest developments in ConTeXt. ...t they are more for experienced Mac users and those comfortable with using the command line.
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• Tools
  ; [[Inside ConTeXt]]: Macros, commands, and other programming. Basics, a must read. ...for all sorts of ConTeXt-related things, from individual runs to managing the installation tree
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• Mailing Lists
  ConTeXt Mailing lists store years of precious Q&A. You can also have a look to the other ConTeXt Community '''[[Web_resources|Web resources]]'''.
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• Command/starttext
  <div class="cd:shortdesc">The environment <tt>\starttext ... \stoptext</tt> contains a document's text. ...escription">In a self-contained text we use the following commands to mark the beginning and end of a text:
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• FO Page Layout
  In FO, one sets up paper size and dimensions at the start of a document and then later calls on these setups. The most
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• Equation alignment
  Be sure to also read the recent (2006-08-02) [http://dl.contextgarden.net/myway/mathalign.pdf Using ...ros. The <tt>textwidth</tt> has been set to 8 cm in these examples so that the page isn't too wide (see [[Layout]] and {{cmd|setuplayout}} for further inf
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• Fonts - Old Content
  = How to use fonts in ConTeXt = ...bstraction and aliases, which may seem “strange” at first for new users of ConTeXt.
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• System Macros/Action Processing
  ConTeXt makes extensive use of a sort of case or switch command. Depending of the presence of one or more provided items, some actions is taken. These macros ...he <code>key-value</code> parser, like in this (simplified) example, where the user has said width=small or something similar:
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• Command/keyword:method
  ...md|placelistofsynonyms}} is influenced by an appropriate keyword passed to ConTeXt's sort module ({{src|sort-ini.lua}}). The details lay in a rather obscure set of methods (see source), for which the following short-cuts are defined:
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• Rsfs
  ...blend well with Computer Modern and Latin Modern. They can be used inside ConTeXt as follows <context source="yes">
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• Executesystemcommand
  == How to pass over part of the source to an external program? == ...nstallprogram}} defines a program in the tui file which is then run before the next execution of texexec.
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• System Macros/Branches and Decisions
  This page describes the conditional expressions available in ConTeXt. ...thing they were able to locate a LaTeX macro that could be used to inspect the next character.
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• Windows Installation: ConTeXt Suite with SciTe
  {{note | You will need admin rights to your Windows to manage the installation process. If you don't have that, get somebody who does.}} ...and check that your SciTe is version 2.26 or newer (the newest version, at the time of writing 2.29, is recommended).
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• ConTeXt Standalone Funtoo
  ...on|Minimals/Implementation]] | [[ConTeXt Minimals/TODO|Minimals/TODO]] | [[ConTeXt Minimals/Contents|Minimals/Contents]] | [[Installation hints]] | [[Installa ...ls can be installed and/or uninstalled in the common way via '''emerge'''. The ebuilds are stored in a git directory so you need to check them out before
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• Custom pretty printer
  ConTeXt allows one to define a custom pretty printer, which knows how to This page details the creation of a pretty printer in Lua, which is
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• Mark IV
  ...f the [[LuaTeX]]-aware part of ConTeXt; that is, when you use ConTeXt over the LuaTeX engine instead of PDFTeX or XeTeX. You run it with context filename
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• Read Me
  What follows is the text from get the message across. A TeX related system like ConTeXt is a hybrid of
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• Hyphenation
  ...with a hyphen to indicate the breakoff. This is called '''hyphenation'''. ConTeXt has a great many facilities for dealing with hyphenation, both automaticall === Define the language for the whole document ===
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• Units
  ...e units module comes built-in, however there is still the option to access the old module and its commands via {{cmd|usemodule}}[units] Additional documentation about units in MkIV is available from the [[http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/units-mkiv.pdf Units manual]]
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• Bibliography mkii
  The '''bib''' module provides the {{cmd|cite}} and {{cmd|placepublications}} commands, in addition to some se ...dule is part of the standard distribution. The current version is also on the
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• Basics
  ...' (because paragraphs, emphasis, verbatims, quotes, etc also contribute to the structure of your documents). ...[[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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• Protrusion
  ...me presets by Hans, but there are a few tricks needed in order to activate the feature. ...ture that enables it, and "Hanging" after what hyphens do into the margin. The microtype LaTeX package also includes a protrusion feature, and may be know
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• Gnuplot
  To make the examples on this page work, you need Gnuplot 4.6.0 or later (or self-compil % include the resulting graphic into the document
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• Animation
  * using <b>[[modules:animation|the animation module]]</b> The first alternative can be hardcoded, achieved with either some trickery ({{c
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• Command/writebetweenlist
  <div class="cd:shortdesc">The command <tt>\writebetweenlist</tt> is used for putting some non-item in a l <div class="cd:description">Insert something in that is not a list element in the middle of a list. Most often a command such as {{cmd|hrule}}, or a header.
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• Combinations
  Combinations are ConTeXt's way to align several pictures (preferrably at same size): or using the newer interface:
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• User-Defined Enumerations
  ...r:Hagen|Hans]] provided this example of how to create a new enumeration in ConTeXt, which defines a "Mojcanian" numbering system, and a conversion based on th \expandafter\mojcaniannumber\expandafter{\the\numexpr#1-13\relax}\fi}
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• Command/startcombination
  The environment <tt>\startcombination ... \stopcombination</tt> is used for gro ...number of objects arranged in a matrix, with a caption below each object. (The captions may be empty.)
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• MkIV Differences
  ...portant differences. This page attempts to list the intentional as well as the unavoidable incompatibilities between Mark IV and Mark II (but not bugs). ...y. You must remember to always give the full name of the options, and then the effects should be almost unnoticeable.
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• Footnotes
  <context source="yes"> Way to \ConTeXt\footnote{First footnote.} is painful.
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• Inside ConTeXt
  == ConTeXt Features == * [[Programming in LuaTeX]] (Topic: alleviating the more cumbersome sides of TeX programming.)
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• URL
  ...layed where the URL is used. #3 can be used for the 'file path' portion of the URL, if you want. This dates back to when hyperlink support in Alternatively, you can use only two arguments and the URL will be used as its own text.
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• Command/showframe
  <div class="cd:shortdesc">The command <tt>\showframe</tt> shows a frame around page areas ...are outlined; if one argument is specified, it must specify one or more of the horizontal components; if both arguments are specified, any vertical part(s
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• Textadept
  2. Use <code>textadept.exe</code> from the extracted folder to start Textadept. All default user settings for Textadept have to be saved in the file <code>init.lua</code>. There are two of them, of which you should edit
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• InstallationPreviousMethods
  ...d way of installing ConTeXt on all platforms is using [[ConTeXt Standalone|ConTeXt Suite]]}} Most [[TeX Distributions]] include an installation of ConTeXt already.
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• Processing Lists
  < [[Main Page]] | [[Inside ConTeXt]] > ...cros/Comma_Separated_Lists|Comma Separated Lists]] for details of lists in ConTeXt
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• Including pages from PDF documents
  ...base/page-imp.mkii page-imp.mkii] and [http://source.contextgarden.net/tex/context/base/page-sel.mkiv page-sel.mkiv] defines some handy macros for handling im ...the included PDF file are discarded. To enable the interactive elements of the included PDF file, use
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• Math/stackers
  ConTeXt has a nice structure called {{code|1=mathstackers}} in order to define new The two command {{code|1=\mathover[symbol]{}{}}} and {{code|\mathunder[symbol]{
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• Modes
  Very often, you want to generate multiple versions of the same document: one version for printing and one for viewing on the screen, one version for
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• pm39 cmdref revamp proposal
  "Towards A Revamped ConTeXt Reference Manual" == The Short Version ==
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• Image Placement
  If you’re using ConTeXt for complex layout tasks, you need to calculate with image sizes. Often it = Measures in pure ConTeXt =
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• Math/Fonts
  ConTeXt ships with typescript for the following math fonts. To use these typescripts, either use ...| lucidaot || Add <code>\loadtypescriptfile[lucida-opentype]</code> before the font directives
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• Windows 10 64 bit Installation 2019
  {{note | You will need admin rights to your Windows to manage the installation process. If you don't have that, get somebody who does. }} This instruction was written 2019 April 13 and is intended to install ConTeXt standalone distribution (Mark IV).
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• Dummy text
  ...gma-ade.nl/general/magazines/mag-0007.pdf This Way: Faking Text and More]. The commands are defined in {{modulesrc|m-visual.mkiv}}. ...t ships with a number of lovely quotations. You can find them described on the {{cmd|input}} page.
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• Simple Windows Installation
  ...document with a few mouse-clicks. If this is not what you want to do, see the [[Installation]] page instead. ...t/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe Windows installer] for the Standalone is a hassle-free alternative
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• Encodings and Regimes in XeTeX
  ...r about this - ConTeXt should eventually do everything automatically using the same macro commands as for pdfTeX. So please do not consider this page as a As opposed to most other TeX engines, XeTeX interprets the input as UTF-8 by default. In pdfTeX you have to say
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• System Macros/Fundamentals
  === The ConTeXt version === Even though ConTeXt does not have a rigid versioning interface, there are a few macros that dea
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• Project structure
  ConTeXt knows no document classes (as LaTeX does). You can define your [[Layout|lay ...md|environment}} and {{cmd|startcomponent}} as explained below) and ignore the elaborate project and product setups.</i>
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• TypeScripts - Old Content
  Typescripts are the ConTeXt way of using fonts and defining font families. Beware, the examples on this page work only with MkII / pdfTeX (i.e. neither XeTeX nor
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• Arabic and Hebrew
  {{todo|overview page for the use of middle-eastern scripts}} This is an example environment for typesetting Arabic documents in Mark IV (ConTeXt with LuaTeX). It won't work at all in Mark II (with either pdfTeX or XeTeX)
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• Command/ margindata
  ...of <tt>\<i>margindata</i></tt> are used for placing fragments outside of the regular running text. <div class="cd:description">Place a paragraph in the margin or edge region.
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• What is ConTeXt
  ...without formatting, in plain text, using a macro language. This means that the document's content can change independently of its formatting and vice vers ConTeXt supports colors, configurable page backgrounds, hyperlinks, presentations,
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• XeTeX - Old Content
  ==XeTeX and ConTeXt== ...eplacement for pdfeTeX in the ConTeXt workflow. It does not support all of the fancy PDF features found with pdfeTeX, but it supports most core features (
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• ConTeXt Standalone/Structure
  < [[ConTeXt Standalone]] ...'experimental''': experimental LuaTeX and other binaries - doesn’t work at the moment
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• Module Namespaces
  ...t is under construction and will eventually contain all namespaces used in context modules.}} should adhere to the following rules:
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• Command
  == ConTeXt command reference == ...from the [[source:tex/context/interface/mkiv |interface xml files]] in the ConTeXt distribution ([[#Pre-existing pages |see below]] for legacy pages).
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• TeX Live 2010
  ...th a few small changes. ConTeXt MkII works out the box, MkIV requires that the luatex file cache be regenerated after installation before it can be used ( The ''scheme-context'' installs ''collection-context'' and ''collection-metapost''. This brings in quite a few font families, bu
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• BusinessCard
  ...sing ConTeXt for something more DTP-like, let us consider business cards. The code below is what I actually did for our hobby cattery. ...plain thick paper and cut yourself, I suggest using a nonzero distance in the vertical direction as well.
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• Headers and Footers
  ...title centered, page number in outer margin.) Hans posted this solution to the list: ...|llap}} allows centering of content. Note that {{cmd|pagenumber}} gets you the number prior to conversion; if you're using {{cmd|setupuserpagenumber}}[num
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• Documentation
  = The library = ...with '''Overview'''. The other manuals '''go into detail''' to understand the foundations, explore advanced features, modify or write features.
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• Ligatures
  While the use of ligatures is a feature of good typography, there are places where th * Auf\/lage – breaks the ligature, but also kills hyphenation and kerning
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• TrueType fonts in luaTeX
  ...ovided by Arthur Reutenauer, to whom I am immensely grateful for his help. The instructions should help you explore some features of luaTeX/mkiv and shoul === The problem ===
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• ConTeXt info style
  ...only the screen style but also a handout (<tt>mode=handout</tt>). Beware, the code is mostly from 2004 and not suggested as a current style guide! \setupinteraction [state=start, title={ConTeXt-Info},
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• Columns
  ...fusing. Have a look at the [[manual:columnsets.pdf|Columnsets manual]] and the [[manual:pagecolumns.pdf|Page Columns manual]].) ...("a bit better with balancing and penalties for keeping section heads with the text") with many more configurable options.
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• Floating Objects
  ...t an appropriate position determined by the TeX float placement algorithm. The algorithm has a number of options that can influence float placement. ...tionally, {{cmd|placelistoffigures}} creates a list of the figures used in the document.
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• Command/ unit
  The instances of <tt>\<i>unit</i></tt> are used for typesetting physical units ...ision may be written as <code>per</code>. The font automatically adapts to the environment.
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• Fonts in LuaTeX
  ...es automatically at run-time. This greatly simplifies font installation in ConTeXt. ...t all files using that particular font) can then use the cached version of the metrics instead.
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• Chemistry
  ...h extensive chemistry support including drawing of chemical structures and the typesetting of reactions. ...ual (chapter 10.2), i.e. in the file [https://source.contextgarden.net/doc/context/sources/general/manuals/publications/C6H6O.bib C6H6O.bib].
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• Interaction
  The {{cmd|setupinteraction}} command configures all interaction in the resulting PDF document. Basic interaction (meaning clickable links for refe This makes all links generated with the {{cmd|goto}} command (and indirectly the {{cmd|in}} and {{cmd|at}} commands) clickable. A page is dedicated to this
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• ConTeXt Standalone
  ...nstallation|install the newer ConTeXt LMTX]]. This guide is for installing the older, rarely-updated MkIV distribution.}} ...lel with existing TeX installations such as MikTeX, TeXLive, and so forth. The suite does not include LaTeX packages and binaries.
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• Modules/Karnaugh
  This is a ConTeXt user module that draws Karnaugh maps containing data (ones, ceros, or anyth The download page is [https://modules.contextgarden.net/cgi-bin/module.cgi/ruid
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• PaperSetup
  ...man/context-reference/en/co-pagedesign.pdf Page Design] chapter of the new ConTeXt manual. ...which is the standard paper size in Europe (and almost everywhere else in the world).
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• Style Alternatives
  ConTeXt provides a consistent interface to a variety of font properties through the pervasive ''style'' parameter.
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• Command/externalfigure
  ...alfigure</code> command is used to include an external figure/movie inside ConTeXt. Includes both local files or remote files hosted on HTTP servers. The simplest way to insert an image is to use:
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• Proceedings style
  ...ier]). Every chapter is by an other author, and the author must show up in the table of contents, so there's a special handling of chapter titles using ne way=bypart,
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• TEI xml
  ...way to make sure that your electronic edition of a text will be useful in the future. ...in which xml documents which follow the TEI guidelines can be typeset with ConTeXt. We would invite users to keep a few caveats in mind:
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• Dimensions
  {{note|This article is about the data type. For the names of a page's many dimensions, see [[Layout]].}} A dimension, in TeX, is a variable storing a length. The length is entered
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• Use the fonts you want
  The first step is to declare the storage locations of the fonts you want ConTeXt to consider. Either way, ConTeXt will use fonts properly stored in its tree structure (for example, any font
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• Simplefonts - Old Content
  ...ge is historical in nature and the examples may no longer work with recent ConTeXt distributions. ...arty module named `simplefonts`, which held a few advantages over standard ConTeXt font handling:
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• MetaPost
  ...tScript and used with dvips, but ConTeXt can use it directly with PDF (see the ...extra features; it is enabled by default, so one could say that MetaFun is ConTeXt's default dialect of MetaPost.
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• Spot Colors
  ...ensures that black overprinting your spot colour tints will not knock out the colour - this is important for some types of commercial printing. Then define your basic spot colour. Note that the name cannot contain spaces or numbers (but we come to that later):
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• mixed languages
  ...in language, the best way to switch from one language to another is to use the command : ...glish. We want to comment on a text in Ancient Greek, but in the course of the commentary we want to make references to texts in Arabic and Chinese. So, a
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• Emacs-muse
  publishing environment for Emacs. It simplifies the process of writing right now it isn't); please visit the Muse site [[http://www.mwolson.org/projects/EmacsMuse.html]] for details.
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• FAQ
  == ConTeXt General == === What is ConTeXt? ===
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• Font Switching
  In ConTeXt there are four ways to switch fonts: 1. Placing a font switch at the beginning of a paragraph can sometimes generate unexpected side-effects. Th
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• Table of Contents
  == Placing the ToC == To get the default table of contents use:
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• Programming in LuaTeX
  ...e inside Lua, you need to use the appropriate functions to put things into the TeX stream. ...ide a {{cmd|startluacode}} block, and then define a TeX command that calls the function using {{cmd|ctxlua</code>, especially because {{cmd|ctxlua}} has a
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• Verbatim text
  ...</code> environments have quite a range of built-in options for formatting the verbatim text, see below. To typeset code inside the paragraph, you have the command <code>\type</code>. It can be configured with <code>\setuptype[type
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• Imposition
  ...s to place pages on a bigger sheet in such a way that one can fold and cut the sheet to get a booklet or something similar. Here are some examples: ...our A5 pages on both sides of an A4 sheet: 1 and 4 on the back, 2 and 3 on the front.
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• TeX Live 2009
  This page describes TeX Live 2009 setup at the moment. ...x, OS X) that has regular updates. The release cycle is about once a year; the 2009 version was released in November 2009 (before that, it also had a rele
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• Unexpected behavior
  If ConTeXt appears to behave in a counterintuitive way, chances are If you add the option <code>page=yes</code> to a heading setup, this
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• ConTeXt Standalone/Implementation
  < [[ConTeXt Standalone]] | [[ConTeXt Standalone/Structure]] > It might take some time to propagate the changes and auto-update this page :)
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• Layers
  '''Layers''' are ConTeXt's mechanism for absolute positioning of elements and other advanced techniq Define a layer that takes the whole page
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• TeXExec
  {{note|This page documents the Perl version of TeXExec, which has (relatively recently) been replaced by a | Open the pdf viewer after the texexec run. [[#autopdf|See below]].
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• TABLE
  ...ML tables&rdquo;). They are especially suited for [[XML]] conversions. See the [[manual:enattab.pdf|enattab.pdf]] manual for many examples. <context source=yes>
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• Law Faculty University of Ljubljana Styling and citations
  ...(Pravna fakulteta Univerze v Ljubljani). It is not an official package of the faculty though (not that most of them ever heard of TeX). ...everyone on the ConTeXt users' mailing list for helping me out with this! The least I can do is make it publicly available.
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• Enumerations
  The most basic form of using enumerations in ConTeXt is \item here we list the points,
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• Letter
  The letter module provides a interface to write different kinds of corresponden with the support for different styles and extensions.
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• Aleph Guide
  =Aleph in ConTeXt: A Guide to the Perplexed= # ConTeXt depends on the eTeX extensions, and even LaTeX now defaults to pdfeTeX.
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• Bibliography
  ...r bibliographies is integrated in MkIV’s and LMTX’s core (for the curious, the files are named [https://source.contextgarden.net/&#63;search&#61;bibl-tra ...KVI.pdf From BibTEX to ConTEXt mkiv], a 2014 presentation about BibTeX and the state of Bibliography in MkIV.
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• Modules
  Modules are extensions to ConTeXt’s core functions. There are not as many modules for ConTeXt as packages for LaTeX, because ConTeXt’s core already contains a lot that needs a package in LaTeX.
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• Table manipulation
  < [[Extensions_to_the_Lua_I/O_library|The I/O-Library]] In ConTeXt, the vanilla Lua [http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#5.5 table library]
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• TeXShop
  TeXShop is a good editor for all variants of TeX and ConTeXt. It offers: * two-way synchronisation (SyncTeX) between source and PDF;
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• Biochemistry textbook
  ...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-trivial was co '''Encoding'''. I wrote in Emacs, encoding the text in iso-latin-1:
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• Encodings and Regimes - Old Content
  ...Unicode] effort clearly shows that 256 characters cannot possibly contain the world's languages. However, traditional TeX is an old system, and will only LaTeX users will probably know them under the name '''fontenc''' (<code>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}</code> for example).
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• Presentations
  = Producing Your Presentations with ConTeXt = After using ConTeXt for a while, many users begin to think about producing
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• Registers
  * To add the word "word", use: {{cmd|index}}<tt>{word}</tt> ...ort a word (such as "ConTeXt" under "C"), use: {{cmd|index}}<tt>[CONTEXT]{\ConTeXt}</tt>
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• pm39 interface analysis
  ...understand how different kinds of commands are expressed, to help support the effort of generated a DITA document set. I used the interface file `context-en.xml`:
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• Tabulate
  ''colorization'' of those rules, the background of fields as well as the text itself.
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• Titles
  Titles define the structure of your document. Decide yourself how deep you want to nest them, ...section on [[#Unnumbered_titles_in_table_of_contents|Unnumbered titles in the table of contents]].
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• Using Graphics
  The simplest way to insert an image is to use: ...; the width and height of the image are equal to the natural dimensions of the image.
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• Wishes for Latin Modern
  This list contains wishes for future versions of the [[Latin Modern]] font family. In de.comp.text.tex, there has been a discussion about the [[Latin Modern]] font family that is developed by '''Bogusław Jackowski'''
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• Vim
  This page is about editing ConTeXt source in Vim, gVim, MacVim, and other Vim clones. The page describes the scripts available in Vim v8.0.0055 or later. If you are using Vim 7, see
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• Letter style
  ...include text or a logo at the top, and contact information to the right of the window space. ...want to use it, save the following as <tt>letterstyle.tex</tt> and follow the usage instructions. A downloadable version is available [[media:letterstyl
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• setting sigs
  The idea here is to be able to tell how setting signatures change from command ...nterface file from the ConTeXt distribution, retrieved 2020-05-29 from the context-mirror repository on GitHub.
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