Re: muse, pandoc and context

["Jörg Hagmann" <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch>]

Hi Jean and Gour,

Thanks for the comments. I would prefer muse, but 
superscripts/subscripts are extremely common in biology, not just for 
chemical formula, and maybe there are more things missing I didn't come 
across so far. On the other hand, tables didn't work well in markdown 
--> pandoc --> context. If there is no way from reST to context, it's no 
use to me.
Conclusion: there seems to be no good solution...

Cheers, Jörg

Gour wrote:
>>>>>> "Jörg" == Jörg Hagmann <joerg.hagmann@unibas.ch> writes:
>>>>>>             
>
> Hello,
>
> Jörg> Dear list members, 
>
> Jörg> Despite using a text editor (emacs) and context almost
> Jörg> exclusively, I need a way to communicate with other members of the
> Jörg> institute. 
>
> I was in the similar boat - using Emacs with muse markup but wanting to
> have something which is more 'standard'- it's not that everyone is using
> Emacs (yet) :-)
>
> Jörg> I'm evaluating two possibilities: 1. Writing in markdown and using
> Jörg> pandoc for conversion to either context or something openable by a
> Jörg> word processor.  
>
> I tried with markdown and gave it up - it's too limiting for my writing
> needs.
>
> Jörg> I would like to know the following: - Has anybody done the same
> Jörg> and come to a conclusion? Reasons?  - Is my impression correct
> Jörg> that with muse one has fewer possibilities such as
> Jörg> sub/superscripts?
>
> I've settled on reST which is richer markup (see
> e.g. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/roles.html#subscript)
> which is more standard than 'muse' and it enables easy conversion to
> *.html (e.g. sphinx produces nice output from *.reST), and there is even
> direct conversion to pdf with rst2pdf. Of course, you can enjoy rst-mode
> as well.
>
> In regard to the ConTeXt side of the equation, I hope that Pandoc will
> get full parser for reST and then it will be possible to use it produce
> nice ConTeXt as well (see Pandoc' archive) or we should write and/or ask
> (I did) for ConTeXt back-end in docutils ;)
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Gour
>   
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