There is a new release of “A Not So Short Introduction to ConTeXt (Community Edition)” found at https://codeberg.org/anss-ce/ANSS-CE/releases.

This release adds the chapter on typesetting mathematics (thanks to all the contributors!).

(Jim)

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Registration for the upcoming ConTeXt meeting
* 24th–28th August
* in Butzbach-Maibach, Germany
* under the subject of “focussing”
is now open!

https://meeting.contextgarden.net/2026/

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There’s a lot of ongoing work in documentation:
“A not so short introduction” (ANSS – community edition; https://codeberg.org/anss-ce/ANSS-CE/) gained a new chapter about math, and “ConTeXt – an excursion” is being updated to LMTX, to be released soon.

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The upcoming update will contain fixes for initials in Hebrew and Indic languages where a vocal “accent” can belong to a letter. (At the last online meet-up, a user presented the problem.)

Also, there will be a possibility to declare colors in PNG images without alpha channel as transparent (“index mask”).

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Since a few weeks, the “handwritten” math font Pennstander, companion to the freely available Grandstander, is part of the ConTeXt distribution and fully supported.

* https://github.com/juliusross1/Pennstander
* https://etceteratype.co/pages/grandstander

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You’re invited to our regular online meet-up, upcoming
Wednesday, May 13th, 19:30 CEST (UTC+2)

at https://lecture.senfcall.de/hen-rbr-rku-oke

This usually a Q&A with the developers and chat about current projects; ConTeXt users of all levels are welcome!

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Wolfgang let the cat in.

Embroidery cat font, implemented in MetaFun with added color support.

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We wish all participants an interesting & inspiring #EuroBachoTeX conference (starting tomorrow)!

https://bachotex.gust.org.pl/index_en.html

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There’s a new update for ConTeXt LMTX – we don’t know yet what it contains, at least some fixes for issues that were discussed on the mailing list.

I didn’t mention the previous update from last Thursday that also wasn’t announced or explained.

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Version 1.1 (of the Community Edition) of
“A Not So Short Introduction to ConTeXt LMTX”
has been released for your reading pleasure at
https://codeberg.org/anss-ce/ANSS-CE/releases/tag/2026-04-21

(Jim)

full announcement: https://mailman.ntg.nl/archives/list/n[email protected]/thread/4NAGYBY7DGH7DBE73CKYI6GQYGUXLLIV/

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