Re: Seeking a Deeper ConTeXt: Questions for Initializing

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

John Haltiwanger wrote:

> Okay, but that does imply that an organization can set up an environment and
> expect its members to use it.

indeed, of seek help in doing so (not much different from setting up a 
housestyle for word ro whatever)

> I'm not sure what you mean by a representation of a node list for a
> paragraph (I am new to TeX, remember), but I am thinking more along the
> lines of extracting Title, Author, and the content. Typesetting is not the
> goal, as XML is for computers not people.

<glyph font='1' char='123'><kern width='1pt'><glyph font='1' char='456'>

etc .. the result of typeseting (kind of application xml which actually 
much of the xml around is)

> The gain of XML is participation in the semantic web and concordance with
> many new data keeping rules in governments and organizations.

that should happen with the source, ot the typeset result

- structured document in xml format
- rendering to the web using xslt and xhtml and css
- rendering for paper using tex
- analysing for whatever purpose using xml toolkits

>  The input is actually a specific version of Word. This is converted to XML.
> In the case of LaTeX, the LaTeX is converted to Word and then to XML.

i'd then go from latex directly to xml (given enough structure) but even 
workflows like word -> xml -> context are quite doable

Hans

ps most of our work here involves making styles and going from word/xml 
-> pdf (either or not reassembled) using context

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