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This is a wiki for the ConTeXt document processing system which is a TeX macro package created and maintained by Pragma ADE. Here you may explore documentations, examples, and tips related to ConTeXt.
- About this wiki (operating 1,131 articles)
- ConTeXt blog
- ConTeXt group
- Resources on the web
- Mailing Lists: Archives at ConTeXt garden, mailman interface and gmane
- FAQ (Frequently asked questions)
- Related Programs and Tools
- Humour
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News
- BachoTeX 2012 will be held from April 29th until May 3rd 2012, at the usual place of Bachotek near Brodnica (Poland)
- Work on TeX Live 2012 is in progress ...
Revision of ConTeXt User Manual
User feedback is appreciated on these new chapters:
- Chapter on typography
- Chapter on fonts
- Chapter on pagedesign
ConTeXt user meetings
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The Sixth International ConTeXt User Meeting will take place in Breskens in The Netherlands from October 8 through October 12, 2012.
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The Fifth International ConTeXt User Meeting took place in Bassenge in Belgium from September 19 through September 24, 2011.
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Getting Started
Introduction
- What is ConTeXt?
- Try ConTeXt online
- License and Read Me notes
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Installation and First Documents
- The ConTeXt suite (recommended)
- Installation on your system
- Your 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th ConTeXt document
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Using Mark IV
- Mark IV Introduction
- Running Mark IV in TeX Live
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Documentation
Books
- MkII, MkIV, the history of LuaTeX
- Metafun Manual
- Layouts in ConTeXt
- Fonts in ConTeXt
Official ConTeXt documentations
- Context, an excursion by Ton Otten and Hans Hagen (169 Pages) (screen) (print) (Translations)
- The user manual (screen) (print) (being revised)
- command reference as Wiki or pdf file (lua based)
- detailed list of ConTeXt manuals
- Dictionary on typographical terms
Specific Subjects
- document structure like titles, tables, enumerations...
- Visuals: Layout, graphics, fonts, and other aspects of the document's appearance.
- Mathematics and other scientific notations.
- XML: ConTeXt can be used to format XML text or documents.
- presentations and on-screen display.
- PDF/X compatible documents (Mark IV only).
- bibliographies
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Tips and Tricks
- The ConTeXt Way: The ConTeXt philosophy.
- From LaTeX to ConTeXt: Particular tricks that are useful for moving from LaTeX to ConTeXt.
- HTML and ConTeXt: Collaborative HTML document preparation using Wiki and its conversion to ConTeXt using Ruby.
- Version Control: Getting version control specific information in ConTeXt
- TeX and pdfeTeX: Non-ConTeXt specific page about TeX and pdfeTeX
- Posting on arxiv.org: How to submit ConTeXt documents to arxiv.org/, the worldwide, heavily used physics (and now mathematics and computer science) open-access preprint server.
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Development
Documentation
- Inside ConTeXt: Macros, commands, and other programming.
- MK IV implementation reports
- LuaTeX documentation
- Documentation of the source code
- The Release Notes page documents what has changed in each new release
Source code
- The Current and Beta versions
- Git repo and it's mirror
- ConTeXt source browser (why outdated?)
Comment: There is no offical repository there the development is going. The source code is released irregularly and placed at the www.pragma-ade.com website. The git and source browser repositories are updated by a script from the Current and Beta versions of the source code.
Bug tracker
- ConTeXt and LuaTeX
- ConTeXt minimal distribution installation scripts
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