Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

[Bill Meahan <subscribed_lists@meahan.net>]

Aditya and Idris were sufficiently strong in their recommendation to use 
Markdown+pandoc for multi-format document production (including ConTeXt) 
I decided to take another look.

Facepalm!

I suddenly realized the custom formatting I thought I would lose is 
simply a matter of creating CSS and ConTeXt environment files to specify 
the formatting and styling. I already use environment files according to 
the ConTeXt Project Structuring and translating that to CSS is more a 
matter of spending some time doing it rather than complexity.

Let's go for two facepalms.

What made the difference is a little editor, written entirely in Python 
so it is cross-platform, called ReText. It is less powerful than Emacs 
but has the advantage of almost-real-time preview of what the produced 
document will look like in plain HTML. It's not quite WYSIWYG but it 
_is_ the next best thing and satisfies my needs. You can find ReText at 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/retext/  As I said, it (should) work for 
Windows and Mac users but you must have WebKit installed for the preview 
feature. Mac users have it by default since Safari uses it. Actually, 
Apple wrote it. Of course, you need Python installed as well.

Thanks again!

-- 
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA

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