From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/10109 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Pepping Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: DocBookInConTeXt customization? Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:46:08 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20021211204608.GA1981@scaprea> References: <20021208151217.GA15406@mail.inet.hr> <4224182C-0AC2-11D7-B0AD-0050E4258255@fastmail.fm> <20021208195429.GA20944@inet.hr> <20021209200956.GA1164@scaprea> <20021210165308.GA16020@mail.inet.hr> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039639728 990 80.91.224.249 (11 Dec 2002 20:48:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 20:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MDmh-0000Fq-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:48:47 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4B010AEA; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:48:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from hgatenl.hobby.nl (ns.hobby.nl [212.72.224.8]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FEBA10AE7 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:47:56 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from hgatenl.hobby.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hgatenl.hobby.nl (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gBBKloYr061924 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:47:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl) Original-Received: (from uucp@localhost) by hgatenl.hobby.nl (8.12.5/8.12.2/Submit) with UUCP id gBBKlolv061923 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:47:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from simon by scaprea.salix.nl with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MDk8-0000YY-00; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 21:46:08 +0100 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Mail-Followup-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021210165308.GA16020@mail.inet.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:10109 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:10109 On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:53:08PM +0100, Gour wrote: > Simon Pepping (spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl) wrote: > The point is that the first diagram should look like: > > dic ConTeXt > DocBook -------> *.tex --------> output > > > The point is clear: allow users which use DocBook, as an authoring > tool, to havebenfit of Con(TeX)t typeset engine. That is against the idea; the tex document never exists really. I admit that formatting a document via environments that only exist on the fly and that you never get to see, is cumbersome, and for many users a no-go. Perhaps it may be made possible to write the generated commands to a tex file instead of executing them, although that will not be easy to achieve. It would help users to debug their customization. It would also help them to maintain the bad habit of always going the route of the explicit tex document and editing that. Such a bad habit would turn a process that is fast and efficient, into a process that is cumbersome and awkward. Regards, Simon -- Simon Pepping email: spepping@scaprea.hobby.nl