From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24021 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: An idea Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:14:30 +0100 Message-ID: <439056C6.6080804@wxs.nl> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1133534444 12380 80.91.229.2 (2 Dec 2005 14:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 14:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Dec 02 15:40:33 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 1EiC3M-0005m8-S5 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:38:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE7612843; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:38:24 +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 14109-08-4; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:38:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA59128D7; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:14:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E370D128C3 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:14:46 +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 13381-05-4 for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:14:46 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E89101285F for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2005 15:14:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 6025 for multiple; Fri, 02 Dec 2005 15:19:47 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users , Brooks Moses In-Reply-To: <20051201162914.GA14497@fly.srk.fer.hr> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 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:24021 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.. > > > what do you mean with source code formatting? >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. >== > >Basically, rewrite standard Latex environments and commands (\chapter, >\section, itemize, enumerate, etc..) present in article.cls and report.cls >to expand to Context commands that give an equivalent layout.. > >How much work would it be? Either a Latex emulation environment or a new >implementation of "Latex classes" for Context? > >I have to admit that I don't have time to start implementing either. I'm just >interested in some feasibility opinions.. > >80% of Latex<>Context transition can be done with a few simple regexes. >Other 20% have to be translated by hand, and it is very painful, esp. >if tables are in question.. > > brooks is working on that so maybe you should team up with him Hans