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From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: ConTeXt to RTF Conversion
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 21:19:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050921201943.15904@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4331BDFC.7070808@gmail.com>

Mojca Miklavec said this at Wed, 21 Sep 2005 22:09:32 +0200:

>1. The best quality can be achieved if you prepare all your stuff in XML 
>and then write both a stylesheet for conversion into HTML and "a couple" 
>of ConTeXt definitions to handle formating for output in PDF documents. 
>I never did that (I consider it too complex and time consuming), but if 
>you're ready to go that way and sacrifice some time, there are some 
>people on the list who can help you.

very much agreed here. I'd personally advocate an intermediate XML
format (that matches your document needs), and transforming to Word-
friendly HTML or to a ConTeXt-friendly format.

For a taste of some XML workflows, see:
<http://pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/example.pdf> 
<http://pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0008.pdf>
and talk with the list!
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-21 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-21 15:12 Louis F.Springer
2005-09-21 15:31 ` andrea valle
2005-09-21 15:58   ` Pr. Erich Fickel
2005-09-21 21:23     ` andrea valle
2005-09-21 20:09 ` Mojca Miklavec
2005-09-21 20:19   ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
2005-09-22  7:05 ` ConTeXt to RTF Conversion (tex4ht) Maurice Diamantini
2005-09-21 16:12 ConTeXt to RTF Conversion Idris Samawi Hamid
     [not found] <20050922100002.E15A2127F0@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-09-22 10:23 ` Duncan Hothersall
2005-09-22 16:51   ` Maurice Diamantini
2005-09-22 20:54     ` Christopher Creutzig
2005-09-23 18:57       ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-09-23 20:13         ` Christopher Creutzig

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