From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41336 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gour Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: markup format ---> ConTeXt Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:09:16 +0200 Message-ID: <87hccazk37.fsf@nitai.hr> References: <87wslc424w.fsf@nitai.hr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0378178466==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1212502300 336 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2008 14:11:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 14:11:40 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jun 03 16:12:21 2008 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 1K3XEk-0004u2-NV for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:11:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A88D31FD60; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:10:53 +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 01582-02-6; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:10:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 087C51FCAA; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:10:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA5D71FBD5 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:10:07 +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 02395-03 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:09:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C6B01FCD7 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2008 16:09:33 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1K3XCe-0006gU-S8 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:09:32 +0000 Original-Received: from 241-217.dsl.iskon.hr ([89.164.241.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:09:32 +0000 Original-Received: from gour by 241-217.dsl.iskon.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:09:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 52 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 241-217.dsl.iskon.hr User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AyAopbPNQtmWjKB5OobguuqQmps= 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:41336 Archived-At: --===============0378178466== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >>>>> "Maurice" =3D=3D Maurice Diamantini wri= tes: Maurice> Just some remarks/questions: - docbook seems to be the standard Maurice> for describing documentation data, - dblatex seams to be a Maurice> currently good supported tools for **easely** provide pdf Maurice> output from docbook input, and cutomize the output with .xsl Maurice> parameters or LaTeX .sty files - dbcontext seams not to be Maurice> maintained very much - ConTeXt seams to be able to directly Maurice> parse xml without external tools Heh, for me (and I'm not alone), docbook is an overkill for many documentation tasks - way too big :-/ Maurice> If ConTeXt provide an easy way for translate docbook to pdf Maurice> file (usable by a non (ie. not yet) ConTeXt user as dblatex Maurice> is), I think poeple could switch to ConTeXt only for that Maurice> feature (not everybody have dependency with LaTeX!) Then the Maurice> problem would resume to find a good "yourPreferedWikiFormat" to Maurice> docbook... (I'v not seen any "t-bocbook" file on Maurice> http://dl.contextgarden.net/modules) Take a look at http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ - it uses 'extended' markdown syntax and can export to ConTeXt. If pandoc would not be enough for our documentation needs, I'd probably look at reST or Asciidoc which do Docbook, but no ConTeXt back-end :-( Sincerely, Gour =2D-=20 Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D =2D--------------------------------------------------------------- --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhFUI0ACgkQlMjHkcbnFi1PWgCgkkkNlK58HzzLBEQU4Yv4Vr6n BjoAn1FmyxS7r4Jl5IN3RWPG+9MBCmrQ =FwZc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============0378178466== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ --===============0378178466==--