not-so-short-introduction-to-context
A not so short introduction to ConTeXt. Help to get started with the wonderful and fascinating typesetting and document composition system ConTeXt (by contextgarden)
ConTeXt-templates
A collection of document templates in ConTeXt (by lonbar)
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| over 1 year ago | about 3 years ago | |
| TeX | TeX | |
| - | MIT License |
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not-so-short-introduction-to-context
Posts with mentions or reviews of not-so-short-introduction-to-context.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.
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Is ConTeXt wiki down?
I'm been using ConTeXt on and off for a bit, and I haven't been able to access the ConTeXt wiki at https://wiki.contextgarden.net/
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Typst, a modern LaTeX alternative written in Rust, is now open source
Take a look at ConTeXt, which does away with the packages approach of LaTeX and all the complexity. It is pretty mature (first came out in 91) and the underlying LuaTeX engine is even being used by some LaTeX distributions. It is pretty programmable as you can call Lua from within it. Here are some resources if you are interested: A not so short introduction to ConTeXt
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Help with master thesis template
Note that this is ConTeXt, not LaTeX, but the two are quite similar on a day-to-day basis. ConTeXt is a bit less well-known, but the documentation is quite decent. If you're interested, I can recommend this and this and the ConTeXt wiki here.
ConTeXt-templates
Posts with mentions or reviews of ConTeXt-templates.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-17.
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Help with master thesis template
I'm not sure how useful this is to you, but I took the liberty of porting your Word document (as represented by LibreOffice) to ConTeXt (see the example here). The transition is not perfect, and would need more work. So depending on the time window you have for your thesis, this may not be the way to go.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing not-so-short-introduction-to-context and ConTeXt-templates you can also consider the following projects:
typst - A new markup-based typesetting system that is powerful and easy to learn.
pandoc-latex-template - A pandoc LaTeX template to convert markdown files to PDF or LaTeX.
Awesome-CV - :page_facing_up: Awesome CV is LaTeX template for your outstanding job application
djot - A light markup language
typst-lsp - A brand-new language server for Typst, plus a VS Code extension
asciidoctor-latex - :triangular_ruler: Add LaTeX features to AsciiDoc & convert AsciiDoc to LaTeX
vimtex - VimTeX: A modern Vim and neovim filetype plugin for LaTeX files.
hayagriva - Rusty bibliography management.
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