From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8942 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: m-bib, xml, etc. Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:00:32 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020807110032.5ee187af.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <29426950.1028655475296.JavaMail.darcusb@muohio.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399306 31717 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:55:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Bruce D'Arcus" In-Reply-To: <29426950.1028655475296.JavaMail.darcusb@muohio.edu> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8942 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8942 On Tue, 6 Aug 2002 13:37:55 -0400 (EDT), Bruce wrote: > In general, any new xml-based system should not inherit the limitations > of previous approaches. What I am about to say may indicate some > ignorance of BibTeX, with which I am not intimately familiar, so take > it for it's worth (and correct me if I'm wrong!): True but also applicable to RIS. Desperately missing from both bibtex and endnote/reference manager file format are character sets. > Finally, my biggest issue is this: > > Exactly how do I write documents such that I can easily produce not > just beautiful pdf output via pdftex, but also some format that word > processors (Word) and dtp apps can import? It doesn't seem tagged pdf > is coming anytime soon. In theory, a ConTeXt to html script would > work, but I'm not aware of this coming soon either. Finally, given > support for xml in ConTeXt and your interest in moving m-bib in this > direction, I suppose I could just write in xml. I don't believe I can answer the general question. For bibligraphic data the solution is rather straightforward: I'll just write some perl code to go from XML to RIS/bibtex & vv. > OK, but adding RIS (or refer) import to m-bib would really help me out, > as BibTeX export from an app like Endnote is less-than-ideal! We ware working on this issue off the list. If someone wants to be in on the discussion, please e-mail me. greetings, Taco -- groeten, Taco