From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22726 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: DOC/RTF to ConTeXt via XML [was: Re: ConTeXt to RTF Conversion] Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:30:40 +0200 Message-ID: <43387690.6080101@wxs.nl> References: <436E5F8C@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127773903 8845 80.91.229.2 (26 Sep 2005 22:31:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:31:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: phthenry@iglou.com Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Sep 27 00:31:40 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 1EK1V6-00011C-Er for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:31:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3DF127E5; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:31:07 +0200 (CEST) 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 19423-09; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:31:02 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E47B1127D3; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:31:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9FC127D3 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:30:59 +0200 (CEST) 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 19786-03 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7055E127CC for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:30:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j8QMUEdY008194; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:30:15 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 5FEB136503; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 23:34:37 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.15] (unknown [10.100.1.15]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7449736501; Mon, 26 Sep 2005 21:34:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <436E5F8C@webmail.colostate.edu> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22726 Archived-At: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >Question: Is it possible to design a doc or rtf template that Open Office can >convert to a sane, consistent xml format? If the Tremblay approach is rich >enough, that would solve a lot of problems! Here is my idea: > > indeed, although converting open office xml is not always easy; stay away from tab's and use high level constructs as much as possible also, try to be very structured Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------