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Some
 
Basic
 
information
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The
 
first
 
public
 
versions
 
of
 
ConTeXt
 
date
 
from
 
around
 
1996.
 
There
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are
 
currently
 
two
 
versions
 
of
 
ConTeXt
:
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MkII
:
 
to
 
be
 
used
 
with
 
pdfTeX
 
and
 
XeTeX
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MkIV
:
 
to
 
be
 
used
 
with
 
LuaTeX
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In
 
2008
 
at
 
the
 
second
 
ConTeXt
 
conference
 
the
 
decision
 
was
 
made
 
to
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freeze
 
MkII
.
 
This
 
means
 
that
 
only
 
bugs
 
are
 
fixed
 
and
 
apart
 
from
 
an
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occasional
 
addition
 
no
 
active
 
development
 
takes
 
place
.
 
This
 
is
 
no
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real
 
problem
 
as
 
the
 
engines
 
don
'
t
 
change
 
much
 
either
.
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Early
 
2011
 
the
 
code
 
base
 
between
 
MkII
 
and
 
MkIV
 
got
 
split
 
completely
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and
 
there
 
is
 
no
 
shared
 
code
 
any
 
longer
,
 
apart
 
from
 
some
 
styles
 
and
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modules
.
 
From
 
the
 
perspective
 
of
 
ConteXt
 
we
 
now
 
consider
 
XeTeX
 
to
 
be
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obsolete
 
although
 
we
 
will
 
keep
 
supporting
 
it
 
in
 
MkII
.
 
As
 
pdftex
 
is
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still
 
used
 
in
 
older
 
workflows
 
we
 
will
 
support
 
that
 
as
 
long
 
as
 
it
'
s
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around
.
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The
 
main
 
files
 
context
.
mkii
 
and
 
context
.
mkiv
 
are
 
normally
 
not
 
used
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directly
 
but
 
instead
 
we
 
use
 
the
 
interface
 
specific
 
formats
:
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cont
-
cs
   
czech
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cont
-
de
   
german
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cont
-
en
   
english
 
us
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cont
-
fr
   
french
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cont
-
gb
   
english
 
uk
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cont
-
it
   
italian
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cont
-
nl
   
dutch
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cont
-
pe
   
persian
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cont
-
ro
   
romanian
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A
 
MkII
 
format
 
is
 
made
 
with
:
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texexec
 
--
make
 
en
 
nl
 
metafun
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A
 
MkIV
 
format
 
is
 
made
 
with
:
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context
 
--
make
 
en
 
nl
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As
 
MetaPost
 
is
 
part
 
of
 
LuaTeX
 
there
 
is
 
no
 
need
 
for
 
a
 
special
 
MetaFun
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format
.
 
Also
,
 
when
 
you
 
update
 
ConTeXt
,
 
a
 
new
 
format
 
will
 
be
 
generated
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automatically
.
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You
 
can
 
preset
 
commands
 
etc
 
in
 
the
 
file
:
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cont
-
sys
.
mkii
  
a
 
system
 
file
 
loaded
 
at
 
runtime
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cont
-
sys
.
mkiv
  
a
 
system
 
file
 
loaded
 
at
 
runtime
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In
 
the
 
case
 
of
 
MkII
,
 
there
 
is
 
a
 
fallback
 
on
 
cont
-
sys
.
tex
 
(
backward
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compatibility
).
 
If
 
no
 
file
 
is
 
found
 
the
 
file
 
cont
-
sys
.
rme
 
is
 
loaded
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(
only
 
for
 
MkII
).
 
For
 
MkIV
 
this
 
file
 
is
 
normally
 
not
 
needed
.
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For
 
questions
 
and
 
remarks
 
on
 
ConTeXt
,
 
one
 
can
 
subscribe
 
to
 
the
 
list
:
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ntg
-
context
@
ntg
.
nl
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by
 
sending
 
the
 
message
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subscribe
 
ntg
-
context
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to
 
the
 
list
 
server
:
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majordomo
@
ntg
.
nl
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A
 
good
 
place
 
to
 
get
 
information
 
is
 
the
 
ConTeXt
 
wiki
:
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contextgarden
.
net
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One
 
can
 
also
 
find
 
more
 
info
 
at
:
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www
.
pragma
-
ade
.
com
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or
 
at
 
the
 
mirror
 
sites
 
mentioned
 
there
.
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Don
'
t
 
hesitate
 
to
 
ask
 
questions
.
 
ConTeXt
 
can
 
do
 
a
 
lot
,
 
but
 
the
 
manuals
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always
 
lag
 
behind
 
and
 
can
 
be
 
incomplete
.
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Hans
 
Hagen
,
 
pragma
 
@
 
wxs
 
.
 
nl
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