html to context

html to context

[ishamid]

Hi gang,

Have any of you guys a script or something to convert simple html to ConTeXt? 
There are apparently a couple of html2latex converters out there but is there 
anything for ConTeXt?

Best
Idris

Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

Re: html to context

[Adam Lindsay]

ishamid said this at Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:12:34 -0700:

>Have any of you guys a script or something to convert simple html to
ConTeXt? 
>There are apparently a couple of html2latex converters out there but is
there 
>anything for ConTeXt?

Huh, that's funny. I was just thinking about that in the context of this
post, as pointed out by Bruce d'Arcus:
<http://kronavita.de/chris/blog/archive/2005/01/converting-bluecloth-to-
pdf.html>

So it sounds like that XSLT would be one place to start.
I have to think, at least with XHTML-basic <http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-
basic/>, that going in and renaming a few of the elements in x-contml
would get you a lot of the way there, as well.

I have to think that <http://tidy.sourceforge.net/> is a worthwhile pre-
processor to have in one's arsenal, and I pointed out <http://www.re.be/
css2xslfo/> to the foXet list just the other day. Technically speaking,
if that converts to XSL-FO as well as it appears, ConTeXt could well be
the back end to it.

But to answer your question, no I don't have anything per se. I'm just
thinking about it. (And, because of PhD obligations, that's all I'm going
to do about it, for the time being!)
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Re: html to context

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hi Idris,

> Have any of you guys a script or something to convert simple html to ConTeXt? 
> There are apparently a couple of html2latex converters out there but is there 
> anything for ConTeXt?

I came across this a couple of days ago:

http://kronavita.de/chris/data/md2context.xsl 

didn't try it, looks rather simple (and special). Perhaps better than
nothing(?).

Patrick
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HTML to ConTeXt

[Aditya Mahajan]

This is interesting. A website that converts html to context 
(actually uses markdown behind the scenes).

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/html2x.html

This is how the context wiki looks like.

http://johnmacfarlane.net/cgi-bin/html2x.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.contextgarden.net%2FMain_Page&format=context

The program is written in haskell and is also available for download. 
You can use it to convert markdown to context. I had been looking for 
this for a while, when multiple formats are needed. Write in markdown 
and generate html or context. I do not completely like the context 
output it generates (for example 
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README gets converted to 
http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/example11.tex.html)

Aditya
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Re: HTML to ConTeXt

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

Hi Aditya,

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:50:03 -0600, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>  
wrote:

> This is interesting. A website that converts html to context
> (actually uses markdown behind the scenes).
>
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/html2x.html
>
> This is how the context wiki looks like.
>
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/cgi-bin/html2x.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.contextgarden.net%2FMain_Page&format=context
>
> The program is written in haskell and is also available for download.
> You can use it to convert markdown to context. I had been looking for
> this for a while, when multiple formats are needed. Write in markdown
> and generate html or context. I do not completely like the context
> output it generates (for example
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README gets converted to
> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/example11.tex.html)

This looks very promising. Perhaps some of us can help the developers to  
improve the ConTeXt support.

Thank you very much for sharing this!

Best wishes
Idris

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Re: HTML to ConTeXt

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

> Hi Aditya,
>
> On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:50:03 -0600, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> This is interesting. A website that converts html to context
>> (actually uses markdown behind the scenes).
>>
>> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/html2x.html
>>
>> This is how the context wiki looks like.
>>
>> http://johnmacfarlane.net/cgi-bin/html2x.pl?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwiki.contextgarden.net%2FMain_Page&format=context
>>
>> The program is written in haskell and is also available for download.
>> You can use it to convert markdown to context. I had been looking for
>> this for a while, when multiple formats are needed. Write in markdown
>> and generate html or context. I do not completely like the context
>> output it generates (for example
>> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README gets converted to
>> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/example11.tex.html)
>
> This looks very promising. Perhaps some of us can help the developers to
> improve the ConTeXt support.
>
I will explore pandoc in more detail in the future. I am more 
interested in it from the point of view of understanding Haskell 
parsers, but improving the context output will definitely not hurt.

Aditya
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