Re: Context -> html

[John Devereux <jd@plastech-controls.com>]

* Berend de Boer (berend@pobox.com) wrote:
> John Devereux <jd@plastech-controls.com> writes:
> 
> > As far as I can tell, there does not seem to be any support for
> > producing html versions of Context documents. Is this correct? I would
> > very much like to be able to produce html and pdf versions of a
> > document. Any ideas?
> 
> I've written such a converter, and it works reasonably well if you
> don't use math. If you use MathML, support for this should be easy to
> add. Unfortunately, I've not been able to release/demonstrate it right
> now. 
> 
> You can send me your file, and I'll convert it.

Berend, thanks very much for the offer, but I was unclear. There
eventually would be lots of documents, so I would need to have the
capability to do it myself!

The main attraction of the TeX systems for me is the possibility of
*automatically* producing several versions of a document from a single
source, using a makefile. Basically I want to be able to have, say, a
product manual written in Context. The manual would have lots of
"#includes" pulling in sections that are common to all products. A
makefile would then automatically generate several variations (A4 and
letter size PDF's, versions with different distributors' logos &
addresses, html version for web site). This all seems possible in
LaTeX, but Context looks to be so much nicer otherwise! (I am a newbie
in both at present).

> I've a new server with lots more space. When installation is finished,
> I hope to make available a simple web interface to convert your
> documents. If things are working reasonably well, perhaps we can
> include it in the distribution.