Here is Aditya's writeup with a few edits by this Mahajan. The part that might have been unclear to someone reading it for the first time is how ConTeXt can be modular yet monolithic: It was designed with the same general-purpose aims as LaTeX, but being younger reflects much more recent thinking about the structure of the markup, is more modular in its conception, and more monolithic in its building. So I shortened that bit in the version below. Plus I added a bit about color and hyperlinks, and I slightly softened the package clash statement about LaTeX -- as Aditya says, LaTeX is orders of magnitude better than a word processor, so let's be generous toward an ally in the cause. -Sanjoy ConTeXt is a document-production system based on the TeX typesetting system. It was designed with the same aims as LaTeX but, being newer, reflects more recent thinking about document markup and is more unified in its design. It includes extensive support for colors, hyperlinks, presentations, figure-text integration, and conditional compilation. ConTeXt gives extensive formatting control to the end user and makes it easy to create new layouts and styles without learning the TeX macro language. ConTeXt's unified design averts the package clashes that can happen with LaTeX. ConTeXt also integrates MetaFun, a superset of MetaPost and a powerful system for vector graphics. MetaFun can be used as a stand-alone system to produce figures, but its strength lies in enhancing ConTeXt documents with accurate graphic elements. ConTeXt allows the users to use formatting commands in English, Dutch, German, French, or Italian, and to use different typesetting engines (PDFTeX, XeTeX, Aleph, and soon LuaTeX) without changing the user interface. ConText is developed rapidly, has a friendly user community, and illustrates the free-software philosophy of "release often", sometimes twice a day!