Characters words and fonts

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Last modified: 2025-03-23

— Tutorials — — How-to Guides —

A tutorial is an experience that takes place under the guidance of a tutor. A tutorial is always learning-oriented.

Tutorial

  • Font styles, style alternatives, and switch commands
  • Mnemonic font switches
  • Emphasizing text
  • Font sizes
  • Typeface selection from those distributed with ConTeXt
  • Capitalizing or small-capitalizing words
  • Underlining, striking through, and overlining
  • Subscripting and superscripting
  • Customize your highlighting commands

How-to guides are directions that guide the reader through a problem or towards a result. How-to guides are goal-oriented.

— Explanation — — Reference —

Explanation is a discursive treatment of a subject, that permits reflection. Explanation is understanding-oriented.

Reference guides are technical descriptions of the machinery and how to operate it. Reference material is information-oriented.


TODO: the rest of the basic elements to be linked and organized here. Delete old page Characters words and fonts/Font Switching (See: To-Do List)

For older content, refering to mkii, we keep a specific zone in the wiki.