From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24044 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolai Weibull Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: An idea Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:36 +0100 Message-ID: <20051202165636.GA8858@puritan.petwork> References: <20051201162914.GA14497@fly.srk.fer.hr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133542745 9949 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2005 16:59:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:59:05 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 02 17:59:02 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EiEDF-0000sL-9E for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 17:56:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D77CC12838; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16855-09-3; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6805A1283F; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67ACF1283F for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 16855-09-2 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (mxfep02.bredband.com [195.54.107.73]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6032B12838 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from puritan.petwork ([213.112.43.250] [213.112.43.250]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20051202165635.DWAQ17186.mxfep02.bredband.com@puritan.petwork> for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:35 +0100 Original-Received: by puritan.petwork (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A2F17ADFE5; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:56:36 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051201162914.GA14497@fly.srk.fer.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:24044 Archived-At: Zeljko Vrba wrote: > A motivation and idea that came to mind while writing a post to > comp.text.tex: > > == > Then again, most (all?) of publishers require Latex source, if my > document ever makes it that far.. And Latex has nicer source code > formatting than Context. so I'm really split between Latex and > Context.. > > None of them individually fit all (I admit, vague) requirements.. > Context being able to chew up Latex .cls files and still allowing for > its advanced formatting directives, long tables, and other goodies > would be a perfect match. > == We were planning on using Vim for preprocessing things like this instead of hacking TeX to do the lexing. I think Mojca (?) had some ideas for this and perhaps even a simple implementation, and given that there is now structured support for preprocessing in texexec I think that this can be done quite easily. A lot easier than writing something in TeX. nikolai -- Nikolai Weibull: now available free of charge at http://bitwi.se/! Born in Chicago, IL USA; currently residing in Gothenburg, Sweden. main(){printf(&linux["\021%six\012\0"],(linux)["have"]+"fun"-97);}