Re: Question: Are there any ConTeXt aware scientific pulishers yet

[Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>]

> Am 15.04.2020 um 22:52 schrieb denis.maier.lists@mailbox.org:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> 1) Does anybody know of any scientific publisher or single journals
>> which accept papers/book chapters typeset in ConTeXt yet
> 
> I will use ConTeXt to typeset the Jewish Studies journal *Judaica* (https://bop.unibe.ch/index.php/judaica/index). (The first issue should appear soon.) However, we do not accept ConTeXt sources as we use jats xml as our production format. (Actually, I don't expect any of our authors is using ConTeXt.)

Interesting. Is ConTeXt handling Hebrew well?

> 
>> 2) If there are any is any of them convinced enought about ConTeXt to recommend use of ConTeXt or even provide template?
> 
> Yes, I gave two talks last year at the Public Knowledge Project Conference in Barcelona. One was about our general workflow (going from docx via pandoc markdown to jats xml; the other was about typesetting xml with ConTeXt.)

I’m using a Python script to convert DOCX to ConTeXt. The better the input, the better the output can be. Usually there’s a lot of manual work. (Last week I had an article whose author never grew out of the typewriter, i.e. every line was a paragraph, footnotes were just paragraphs at the end of his pages – of course my script couldn’t handle that well.)


>> 3) What would be needed and what could help to make them aware?
>> (difficult to properly formulate, if unclear dont bother)
> 
> Don't know. Perhaps more examples?

Even LaTeX is a niche; there are not enough users of ConTeXt for it to look reliable, I guess. You can’t really use it without involving yourself in the community.

And while I generally love working with ConTeXt, I’m cursing it often enough for unexpected/undocumented behaviour, unfinished features and scattered documentation. My book is intended to fix the latter, but there’s no progress – I got too many different projects and severe limitations of working capacity. And children at home...

Best, Hraban
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