TEX
The CONTEXT typesetting environment is available for free and is build on top of the following tools:
- The robust typesetting engine PDFETEX written by Han The Thanh and friends, based on the well known TEX program by Donald E. Knuth.
- Other TEX based engines, like the OMEGA sibbling ALEPH are supported as well.
- The elegant and efficient graphic environment METAPOST based on Don Knuths METAFONT and written by John Hobby.
- The scripting languages PERL and more recently RUBY.
This system integrates well in the main stream TEX distributions and can be uses stand-alone and in editors or web applications.
At PRAGMA we apply this system in projects where high quality output is needed in highly automated typesetting workflows. Documents can be coded in:
- TEX, this format is very well suited for documents with a lot of mathematical formulas, or when typographic detail is needed
- XML, this has the advantage of tight quality control over the source code as well as provides access to extensive manipulations of content
- other formats, in which case we convert them to one of the two above formats
When needed, the source code is cleaned up intermediately to achieve a higher level of typographical detail.
Graphic inclusion is handled automatically, as are conversions to and from other graphic formats.