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+                            Context Mirror
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+
+This is a mirror repository of Context_, a document processing system
+built around Donald E. Knuth’s TeX_. Inconveniently, Context is
+supplied only as file archives and thus lacks version control. The
+mirror aims at providing a source controlled repository to facilitate
+common operations like bisection. Still no commit messages, though,
+besides timestamps.
+
+.. _Context:    http://www.pragma-ade.com
+.. _TeX:        http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/abcde.html
+