From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32024 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: OpenOffice export Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:39:30 +0100 Message-ID: <457327F2.7050409@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165174787 12542 80.91.229.2 (3 Dec 2006 19:39:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 19:39:47 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 03 20:39:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1GqxBe-0006pO-1C for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:39:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CCB91FC27; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:37:16 +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 30532-04; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:37:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E848A1FC21; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:37:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85421FC21 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:37:04 +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 30592-05 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:37:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CEE11FC09 for ; Sun, 3 Dec 2006 20:37:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 21297 for ; Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:39:25 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: 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: 2.1.7 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:32024 Archived-At: Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: > Hi gang, > > I just learned that OOo 2.04 has a LaTeX export (downloading now). Any of > you bright programmers up to writing a ConTeXt export (or porting the > LaTeX filters to ConTeXt)? > > I'm quite serious: if anyone is interested I'll write (or help write) a > grant proposal for it (I've already had some TeX-related proposals funded > so...). > > Please write me if you are interested in a grant, or else we can just > discuss it on dev-context@ntg.nl and get it done another way! > long ago for a project i played a bit with open office output (xml); the best way do deal with it is to convert the xml into a proper document structure instead of an office structure there are a few weird things in oo's xml but when one uses proper styles and limits the user's options to the sensible ones oo can even be a nice editor for docs that are typeset by tex while previewing in oo (whil eediting it is not needed to see the final output) so one can think of: proper xml document definition, make oo stylesheet for this, use oo for editing, convert oo xml to xml doc def, use tex for typesetting since i have no project that needs it i cannot spend time on it now Hans