How to learn context?

How to learn context?

[Shiv Shankar Dayal]

Hi,

I am a C++ programmer by profession. Typesetting is my hobby. I used
to use LaTeX and Groff with ms macro package. Then I found ConTeXt and
I find pdfs created mostly by Hans Hagen awesome. How to learn ConTeXt
so that I can create documents of similar complexity.

As a programmer I find most of the information with google when I face
problem with LaTeX. But for ConTeXt I find very little information.
All I know is wiki.contextgarden.net and manuals written by Hans.

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Best regards,
Shiv Shankar Dayal
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Re: How to learn context?

[luigi scarso]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Shiv Shankar Dayal
<shivshankar.dayal@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a C++ programmer by profession. Typesetting is my hobby. I used
> to use LaTeX and Groff with ms macro package. Then I found ConTeXt and
> I find pdfs created mostly by Hans Hagen awesome. How to learn ConTeXt
> so that I can create documents of similar complexity.
>
> As a programmer I find most of the information with google when I face
> problem with LaTeX. But for ConTeXt I find very little information.
> All I know is wiki.contextgarden.net and manuals written by Hans.
It's enough to start.



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luigi
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Re: How to learn ConTeXt?

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Rob,

> An addition: the source of the pdftex manual is called pdftex-t.tex.
> It is available on the internet (as I found out today).

it is one of the first links on:

http://contextgarden.net/Sample_documents

Patrick
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Re: How to learn ConTeXt?

[Rob Ermers]

An addition: the source of the pdftex manual is called pdftex-t.tex. It 
is available on the internet (as I found out today).

Regards,

Robert Ermers

h h extern wrote:
> Willi Egger wrote:
> 
>> The easiest way to pick up ConTeXt is to start with the "ConTeXT an 
>> excursion" manual. A good place for info and tips is the ConTeXt wiki
>> (http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page)
> 
> 
> a bigger example is the pdftex manual
> 
> Hans
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Re: How to learn ConTeXt?

[h h extern]

Willi Egger wrote:

> The easiest way to pick up ConTeXt is to start with the "ConTeXT an 
> excursion" manual. A good place for info and tips is the ConTeXt wiki
> (http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page)

a bigger example is the pdftex manual

Hans

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Re: How to learn ConTeXt?

[Willi Egger]

Hi Marcin

If you have a working TeXlive thats ok. You can use this. - Another 
approach is to take a minimal distribution from Pragma. I have both on 
my computer.Hans's ditribution does perfectly what I need. If you want 
to stay with ConTeXt then I see no reason to take on board more than 
Hans provides in his minimal distribution.

The easiest way to pick up ConTeXt is to start with the "ConTeXT an 
excursion" manual. A good place for info and tips is the ConTeXt wiki
(http://contextgarden.net/Main_Page)

Seting up the bodyfont is is basically not difficult, but it has changed 
in time ... Provided you use the latest ConTeXt:

For Antykwa Torunska the following shoud work
    	\usetypescript[antykwa-torunska][texnansi]
    	\definetypeface
		[myfont]
		[rm]
		[serif]
		[antykwa-torunska]
		[default]
		[encoding=texnansi]
  	\setupbodyfont[myfont,rm,12pt]

For Antykwa Poltawskiego it will be:
  	\usetypescript[antykwa-poltawskiego][texnansi]
  	\definetypeface
		[myfont]
		[rm]
		[serif]
		[antykwa-poltawskiego]
		[default]
		[encoding=texnansi]
  	\setupbodyfont[myfont,rm,12pt]


Success

Willi
Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Hello everyone!
> 
> My question is as in subject: how to learn ConTeXt?  And another ones:
> 
> How to install ConTeXt?  Manually or from, e.g., TeXlive?
> 
> I would like to typeset in Antykwa Torunska or Antykwa Poltawskiego.  
> Setting \setupbodyfont[...] yields errors about missing ec-ant* fonts (I 
> use the TeXlive 2004 installation, the same thing happened in TeXlive 
> 2003).
> 
> Greetings
> 

How to learn ConTeXt?

[Marcin Borkowski]

Hello everyone!

My question is as in subject: how to learn ConTeXt?  And another ones:

How to install ConTeXt?  Manually or from, e.g., TeXlive?

I would like to typeset in Antykwa Torunska or Antykwa Poltawskiego.  
Setting \setupbodyfont[...] yields errors about missing ec-ant* fonts (I 
use the TeXlive 2004 installation, the same thing happened in TeXlive 
2003).

Greetings

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Marcin Borkowski