Re: TexPaste alpha - my Win application converting Word/HTML to TeX

["J.A.J. Pater" <jajpater@gmail.com>]

Hello Piotr

Sorry for the late reply, but could you post it to the net somewhere or 
to the list?

Thanks,

Adriaan.

> Hello list,
>
> Inevitably, it's a recurring subject. Here are my 2p. After playing
> with all sorts of convertors to TeX, Latex, HTML and scraping the
> output with Perl to obtain something useful for ConTeXt I found that
> what I in fact really need to preserve from a Word file are italics
> and footnotes. To make the long story short. IMHO the only reasonable
> way to go is via XSL stylesheet for ooffice. Fortunately you don't
> have to develop a new one from scratch which would be quite a task.
> There is an excellent stylesheet converting odt to mediawiki by
> Bernhard Haumacher odt2mediawiki.xsl  It took me less than an hour to
> adapt it for ConTeXt output. Then you only add it as an xml filter to
> Open Office and from then on can convert Word to ConTeXt straight from
> ooffice as if it was one of its built-in export formats.
>
> Piotr
>
>
>
>
> 2009/5/28 luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>:
>   
>>> I guess I should build a new converter suite (there's also a InDesign Tags
>>> to ConTeXt converter anywhere on my harddisk).
>>> But I won't make GUI apps, just scripts.
>>>       
>> That's sound good !
>> If in python, even better !
>> If only scripts, the best !
>>
>> Can we have more details ?
>>
>> --
>> luigi
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