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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label context</title>
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<h3>What is ConTeXt?</h3>
<p/><a href="http://www.pragma-ade.com/">ConTeXt</a> is a macro package
developed by Hans Hagen of Pragma-Ade. ConTeXt is a
document-production system based, like LaTeX, on the TeX
typesetting system. Whereas LaTeX insulates the writer from
typographical details, ConTeXt takes a complementary approach by
providing structured interfaces for handling typography, including
extensive support for colors, backgrounds, hyperlinks, presentations,
figure-text integration, and conditional compilation. It gives the
user extensive control over formatting while making it easy to create
new layouts and styles without learning the TeX macro
language. ConTeXt’s unified design avoids the package clashes that
can happen with LaTeX.
<p/>ConTeXt also integrates MetaFun, a superset of MetaPost and a powerful
system for vector graphics. MetaFun can be used as a stand-alone
system to produce figures, but its strength lies in enhancing
ConTeXt documents with accurate graphic elements.
<p/>ConTeXt allows the users to specify formatting commands in English,
Dutch, German, French, or Italian, and to use different typesetting
engines (PDFTeX, XeTeX, Aleph and LuaTeX) without
changing the user interface. ConTeXt is developed rapidly, often in
response to requests from the user community.
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<p/>ConTeXt doesn’t yet have quite such a large developer community as
does LaTeX, but those developers who are active seem to have
prodigious energy. Support is available via a
<a href="http://contextgarden.net">WIKI site</a> and via the
<a href="http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context">mailing list</a>.
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<dt><tt><i>ConTeXt distribution</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/context.zip">macros/context</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/context/">browse the directory</a>)
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