Re: ConTeXt to Markdown (was Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional)

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 02:37:33PM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 19-7-2011 12:46, luigi scarso wrote:
> >On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:41 PM, John Haltiwanger
> ><john.haltiwanger@gmail.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:27 AM, Martin Schröder<martin@oneiros.de>  wrote:
> >>>
> >>>2011/7/19 Cecil Westerhof<cldwesterhof@gmail.com>:
> >>>>When you find them, I would be interested in them. And maybe I can
> >>>>improve
> >>>>on them.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Pandoc. :-)
> >>
> >>Pandoc does not support Context as an input. Nor does it support modern mkIV
> >>conventions (\startchapter..\stopchapter; \hyphenatedURL; etc).
> >>If anyone knows Haskell, maybe we can submit some patches to Pandoc to
> >>create a --mkiv switch for Context?
> >I don't know haskell, but it sound like a good excuse to start.
> 
> it might be way easier to convert the xml export to pandoc because
> then users can still define commands (like special sectioning);
> otherwise you keep extending

Indeed, I was about to suggest the same. Handling xml exported by
ConTeXt avoids all the complexities of parsing TeX code and avoids the
need to only support some predefined subset of it (which is inevitable).

Regards,
 Khaled

-- 
 Khaled Hosny
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