Editing ConTeXt (section)

== History ==
ConTeXt was created by Hans Hagen<ref name="walden-hans">[http://www.tug.org/interviews/interview-files/hans-hagen.html Dave Walden interview Hans Hagen. TeX User Group 2006.]</ref> and Ton Otten of Pragma ADE in the Netherlands<ref>[http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2005-1/asknelly/ "Ask Nelly ..." PracTeX Journal. TeX User Group. 2005]. Includes an example of ConTeXt document with source code.</ref> around 1991<ref name="taco-history">[http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2007/share/taco/history.pdf Taco Hoekwater "A short History of $2^4$ parts". ConTeXt User Meeting 2007 (march 24)]</ref><ref name="CUM-programme-2007">[http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2007/programme.shtml Programme of the ConTeXt User Meeting 2007]</ref> due to the need for educational typesetting material.

Around 1996, Hans Hagen coined the name ConTeXt meaning "text with tex" (con-tex-t; "con" is a Latin preposition meaning "together with").<ref name="walden-hans"/> Before 1996 ConTeXt was used only within Pragma ADE, but in 1996 it began to be adopted by a wider audience. The first users outside Pragma were [[Taco Hoekwater]], [[Berend de Boer]] and Gilbert van den Dobbelsteen, and the first user outside the Netherlands was Tobias Burnus.<ref name="walden-hans"/>

In July 2004, contextgarden.net wiki page was created.<ref name="taco-history"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/happy-birthday-contextgarden/ |title=contextgarden 5th birthday on 24 July 2009 |access-date=22 July 2009 |archive-date=18 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718092025/http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/happy-birthday-contextgarden/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

ConTeXt low-level code was originally written in Dutch. Around 2005, the ConTeXt developers began translating this to English, resulting in the version known as MKII, which is now stable and frozen{{Citation needed|date=November 2009}}.

In August 2007, Hans Hagen presented the MKIV version,<ref name="CUM-programme-2007"/><ref>[http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2007/share/hans/mkiv-epen-2007.pdf Hans Hagen The Road to MKIV. ConTeXt User Meeting 2007.]</ref> and the first public beta was released later that year.<ref>[http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Mark_IV MKIV at contextgarden]</ref>

During the ConTeXt User Meeting 2008, Mojca Miklavec presented<ref>[http://meeting.contextgarden.net/2008/programme.shtml ConTeXt User Meeting 2008 web page]</ref> [http://minimals.contextgarden.net/ ConTeXt Minimals], a distribution of ConTeXt containing the latest binaries and intended to have a small memory footprint, thus demanding less bandwidth for updates.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals |title=ConTeXt Minimals web page |access-date=2009-01-22 |archive-date=2018-11-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116060213/https://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals |url-status=dead }}</ref> In August 2008, this distribution was registered as a project in launchpad web site.<ref>[https://launchpad.net/context ConTeXt at Launchpad.net]</ref>

In June 2008, Patrick Gundlach wrote the first post<ref>[http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/garden-admins-at-the-context-meeting/ First ConTeXt blog post]</ref> in [http://contextgarden.wordpress.com ConTeXt blog].

In July 2009, ConTeXt started [http://dl.contextgarden.net/distribution/git/ git repository].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/new-git-repository/ |title=Post of announce of git repository |access-date=2009-07-22 |archive-date=2010-03-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100324105956/http://contextgarden.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/new-git-repository/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In November 2010, the [http://group.contextgarden.net/ ConTeXt Group] was created.<ref>[http://www.journal-officiel.gouv.fr/association/index.php?ACTION=Rechercher&JTY_WALDEC=W353009428 Official announcement of ConTeXt Group registration]</ref>

In April 2019, [http://www.pragma-ade.com/luametatex-1.htm LMTX] (ConTeXt LuaMetaTeX) was announced.<ref>[https://ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2019/094488.html Announcement of lmtx]</ref>