Community and web resources

Mailing lists

ConTeXt Mailing lists store years of precious Q&A. Please refer to the guidelines for writing to the mailing lists.

• ntg-context@ntg.nl

  • General mailing list for ConTeXt users. Recommended for all ConTeXt users.
  • Current threads

• dev-context@ntg.nl

  • Discussions between ConTeXt developers. Recommended for developers contributing macros and/or documentation.
  • Current threads

• wiki@contextgarden.net

  • Discussions regarding the ConTeXt wiki. Recommended for all ConTeXt Wiki contributors.
  • Current threads

• Search in the archives hosted by mail-archive.com:
  • ntg-context archives
  • dev-context archives
• ConTeXt Mailing lists are hosted by:
  • the Dutch Language TeX User Group NTG - Mailman interface
  • the TeX Users Group TUG - Mailman interface
  • the ContextGarden - Mailman interface
• Other TeX Engines specific mailing-list
  • luatex@tug.org for LuaTeX
  • xetex@tug.org for XeTeX

Chats, Mastodon, on-line meet-up

• Regular ConTeXt news on Mastodon since 2022.
• Regular online meet-up at lecture.senfcall.de or u.mtxrun.eu/ctxmtg
  • Please refer to the Guidelines for online meet-up.
• See IRC channel for ConTeXt.

3rd party modules and repositories

• 3rd party modules and their installation
• tex.stackexchange.com: ConText tag, ConText-lmtx tag, MetaPost tag, MetaFun tag
• GitHub ConText tag (filtered with TeX language).

Groups, conferences and users websites

• Main ConTeXt site at Pragma ADE (Taco's mirror, mirror at contextgarden.net)
• Official ConTEXt Group's webpage
  • organiser of ConTEXt meetings
• Polish TeX Users' Group (GUST)
  • organiser of the BachoTeX conferences
• ConTeXt user pages
  • Taco Hoekwater’s ConTeXt page
  • Bill McClain’s beginners page (esp. about fonts, 2003)
  • Hraban’s ConTeXt stuff and Font packages
  • Aditya Mahajan ConTeXt blog
  • Bertrand Masson's Les fiches à Bébert, kind of french web version of "ConTeXt an excursion".
• Groupe francophone des Utilisateurs de TeX (GUT)
• Humour

Magazines

• ConTeXt Group Journal. Actual PDFs can be downloaded starting about six months after publication of each journal issue. Until then, there is only a Table of Contents available.
• TUG Boat and TUGboat index, published three times a year.
• MAPS, the NTG's journal and MAPS index. It has a lot of articles about ConTeXt and related subjects. You can search the articles.

• This Way Official ConTeXt magazine
• My Way ConTeXt magazine by its users

• PracTeX Journal is (was ? OLD) an online journal with several articles about ConTeXt. Some articles (those related to ConTeXt) are archived.