From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/34990 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Duncan Hothersall Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Write once layout everwhere (?) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:46:12 +0100 Message-ID: <466D27F4.7050909@capdm.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181558844 16539 80.91.229.12 (11 Jun 2007 10:47:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:47:24 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 11 12:47:23 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HxhQg-0004Pe-If for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A0D320122; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:22 +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 25969-01; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983361FFF4; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5EE61FFF4 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:12 +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 24963-02-3 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from banoffee.capdm.com (banoffee.capdm.com [212.20.255.171]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 886E71FFCF for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:47:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.254.41] (lynx.capdm.com [212.20.255.162]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by banoffee.capdm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C027E3448136 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:39:44 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:34990 Archived-At: Hi Pepe, If you want your content to remain maintainable and manageable for a long period (e.g. decades), if you can afford it, and if you have a sufficiently large amount of content, then I strongly recommend investing the time and effort in an XML-based solution. My experience is in large scale educational/commercial applications, in which managing content in XML and using tools like ConTeXt to create beautiful print output, and alternate tools to create web output from the same source, is a very good solution. I can certainly let you know the technology we use, but some of it is commercial and expensive, and other bits are just complicated! I did a talk at the user group meeting which was kinda about this: http://context.aanhet.net/epen2007/share/duncan/ The first question to ask yourself is how much effort is your content worth. The rest of the answers flow from that, in my experience. :-) Duncan > Hello, > > I have used ConTeXt in the past and I have been very pleased with it > and the results obtained, much more than LaTeX. > > Now I am looking into a solution that would allow me to layout the > content ConTeXt and in other formats that ConTeXt does not (Forgive my > ignorance, if I am wrong) output, like HTML, Plain Text, or RTF (Those > are the formats that I can think of that are interesting to me > currently). > > Reading the Wiki one of those solutions would be XML, but I know very > little about the subject, so this email is to ask about experiences in > similar endeavors, other solutions for the same problem and how > practical this is. > > I suppose that I would use this for general writing and for academic > as well (Maths and engineering). > > Thanks, > Pepe > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________