From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8975 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context -> html Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 08:56:43 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020812075643.GB26595@cordelia> References: <20020811215046.GA26595@cordelia> <878z3cy94y.fsf@dellius.nederware.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399340 32097 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:55:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:55:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <878z3cy94y.fsf@dellius.nederware.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8975 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8975 * Berend de Boer (berend@pobox.com) wrote: > John Devereux 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.