From: Berend de Boer <berend@pobox.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Context -> html
Date: 12 Aug 2002 21:14:22 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u1m0wia9.fsf@dellius.nederware.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020812075643.GB26595@cordelia>
John Devereux <jd@plastech-controls.com> writes:
> The main attraction of the TeX systems for me is the possibility of
> *automatically* producing several versions of a document from a single
> source, using a makefile. Basically I want to be able to have, say, a
> product manual written in Context. The manual would have lots of
> "#includes" pulling in sections that are common to all products. A
> makefile would then automatically generate several variations (A4 and
> letter size PDF's, versions with different distributors' logos &
> addresses, html version for web site). This all seems possible in
> LaTeX, but Context looks to be so much nicer otherwise! (I am a newbie
> in both at present).
If you really want that, code your files in XML (perhaps DocBook), you
can convert that to ConTeXt, HTML and whatever perhaps more safe then
coding with ConTeXt and attempting to make HTML from that.
--
Live long and prosper,
Berend de Boer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-12 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-11 21:50 John Devereux
2002-08-12 4:49 ` Berend de Boer
2002-08-12 7:56 ` John Devereux
2002-08-12 9:14 ` Berend de Boer [this message]
2002-08-12 10:07 ` David Somers
2002-08-12 15:31 ` John Devereux
2002-08-12 17:09 ` David Somers
2002-08-13 6:47 ` Berend de Boer
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