Chapter 1. TeX
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## 1.6 ConTeXt (tbd.)

### 1.6.1 Overview

ConTeXt is based on PlainTeX and MetaPost and gets controlled with some Perl scripts. It's mainly targeted towards layout oriented users and especially useful for presentations. It's extensible by the use of modules and has in it's base distribution already a large amount of functionality. The preferred output format is PDF, but DVI is possible too.

Some of the unique features of ConTeXt are:

- Inline XML (including MathML, ChemML, and PhysML)
- really good XML support in general
- inline MetaPost

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