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 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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 Hagen
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 pragma
 @
 wxs
 .
 nl
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