Web resources

Some places to visit

• Main ConTeXt site at Pragma ADE (Taco's mirror, mirror at contextgarden.net)
• Online reference for Commands
• Do you have a TeX question? TeX Stack Exchange
• AUCTeX, Emacs TeX/ConTeXt/LaTex mode: [1]

Mailing lists

See Mailing Lists

Chats

There is an IRC channel for ConTeXt.

ConTeXt user pages

• Taco Hoekwater’s ConTeXt page
• Bill McClain’s beginners page (esp. about fonts)
• Hraban’s ConTeXt stuff and Font packages
• Bertrand Masson's Les fiches à Bébert, kind of french web version of "ConTeXt an excursion".

Magazines

• First, the ConTeXt Group Journal. Actual PDFs can be downloaded starting about six months after publication of each journal issue. Until then, there is only a Table of Contents available.
• The MAPS is the NTG's journal, which has a lot of articles about ConTeXt and related subjects. You can search the articles and download older issues
• The TUG Boat, published three times a year.
• This Way Official ConTeXt magazine
• My Way ConTeXt magazine by its users
• [OLD] The PracTeX Journal is an online journal with several articles about ConTeXt. Some articles (those related to ConTeXt) are archived.

This Way

A ThisWay is yet another attempt on documenting ConTeXt. They are also called magazines. The following magazines are available:

1. Introduction : for what is ThisWay, how to write a MyWay
2. Hiding parts of section titles
3. Page Ranges : multi-page references
4. Pasting digits together : formatting numbers
5. Manipulating the foreground : combining PDF pages
6. Mixed Normal and Bold Math : see also Bold Math
7. A Few Dangerous Features : text effects, overprint/knockout colors
8. Faking Text and More : how to make fake text of black or colored boxes
9. Dealing with XML : typesetting XML documents using XSLT without TeX code
10. Using Platform Fonts : Installing True Type fonts (Verdana used as an example)
11. Good Looking Shapes : typesetting in shapes
12. Project Structure : Project Structure, July 2011
13. Annotated Verbatim
14. Cross document referencing

BTW: ThisWay are official Pragma documentation; if you write one yourself, call it MyWay!

My Way

ConTeXt on demand (broken)

• live.contextgarden lets you try ConTeXt without installing it
• MathML online test
• some more online interfaces to ConTeXt features both as HTML and PDF (list of the following); you must visit this login page first, otherwise the following links won't work
  • This script provides an interface to ConTeXt’s page Imposition features (make booklets etc.)
  • Here you can create n × m overviews (multiple pages on one sheet) of one or more PDF documents
  • There is minimal typesetting involved in this interface: just a file listing.
  • Here you can enter MathML code and test in what way you can control the output.
  • You can use this interface to play with (combinations of) the ConTeXt_distribution's_Fonts.
  • You can use this (dutch) interface to practice your handwriting, or let your kids practice theirs.
  • You can use this interface to typeset documents with the latest ConTeXt.
  • This is an interface to GhostScript, especially the PostScript to PDF converter.
  • This document helps you to make resource libraries, formerly known as figure libraries (see XML, Image Database)
  • You can keep track of what resources are used in a document. This document provides the interface to generating a log of used resources (see also Visual Debugging).
  • This interface can be used to generate sheets with labels (stickers) or other grid oriented content. Each label is a separate page, and x × y pages are collected on a sheet.