From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8977 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Berend de Boer Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Context -> html Date: 12 Aug 2002 21:14:22 +1200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <87u1m0wia9.fsf@dellius.nederware.nl> References: <20020811215046.GA26595@cordelia> <878z3cy94y.fsf@dellius.nederware.nl> <20020812075643.GB26595@cordelia> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399341 32099 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:55:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:55:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: John Devereux In-Reply-To: <20020812075643.GB26595@cordelia> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8977 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8977 John Devereux 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