Re: ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

["Hagmann Jörg" <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>]

On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:14, Chris Lott wrote:
>> 
>> 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to
>> efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting
>> them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word...
>> is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this isn't super-high on my list,
>> but it would be nice.
> 
> ConTeXt only support XHTML to some extent. Now that xhtml backend is
> done, creating support for rtf should be a lot easier to do than
> before xhtml export was there, but unless some substantial funding is
> found, it is unlikely to ever be implemented. Honestly I see no reason
> why anyone would want to have RTF. Even if your colleagues get a
> document in RTF and fix a few things, it won't at all be easy to
> integrate that back. tex4ht most probably offers export to RTF, but
> since author's death it is nearly impossible to request any
> substantial feature. I bet that ConTeXt doesn't work with tex4ht any
> more.
> 
> Roger suggested markdown/pandoc. It is limited to some extent, but if
> you are happy with its set of features, you could probably use it for
> export into both RTF and XHMTL. Of course then you can forget about
> lua sugars in ConTeXt ...

Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed ruby script which covers the most common layout commands (and I'm mentioning that here in the hope that somebody who is more competent will eventually write something useful; or maybe pandoc does that, too?).

This setup allows me to have everything belonging to a project in one textfile, e.g.:

* Heading

Notes, Ideas

Lists:
- item 1
- item 2

Tables:
| one | two | three |

Dates:
** TODO <2011-12-14 Wed 15:10>
which I can collect in an agenda

* Manuscript

This section contains a manuscript which I can separately export as:
- textfile
- Latex file
- HTML file
- odt file (for LibreOffice, where it can be saved as a Microsoft doc)

More sophisticated ConTeXt commands that are not provided for can be enclosed in

#+BEGIN_LaTeX
\Context command
#+END_LaTeX

or put behind

#+LATEX: \Context command

They will show up in the final ConTeXt version, but will not, of course, be translated into html, odt etc.

** Subsection :noexport:

This section is part of "Manuscript", but will not be exported.

There are many more features, see http://orgmode.org/

Hope this helps, Jörg
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