Re: ConTeXt Switcher?

[Bob Kerstetter <bkerstetter@mac.com>]

On Dec 8, 2003, at 2:33 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am Montag, 08.12.03, um 18:20 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Bob 
> Kerstetter:
>> ConTeXt is very attractive because of its detailed control, layers, 
>> colors, few or no packages(!!!!!), magical developers, and on and on. 
>> It can obvious produce PDF. Can it also produce HTML and Word from 
>> the same document?
>
> The normal way to get both PDF and HTML is using a XML source.
> You know of ConTeXts native XML mode?
> AFAIK you can import XML or HTML into MS Office, too, so you need no 
> real Word DOC output.
> Or perhaps there's an other XML to RTF/DOC Konverter...

I know XML source should work, but at least for me, creating XML source 
is unproductive.  I work with a text editor and find writing this:

``Hello world,'' says HAL.

much more productive than writing this:

<p>&#8220;Hello world&#8221;</p>, says HAL.

Maybe I'm missing something, but for writing, XML's markup requirements 
-- which are invisible to field-based data entry screen -- are way too 
intense for hand-editing. TeX source is much less verbose. It is easier 
to create, proof (both visually and audibly),  spell check 
troubleshoot, etc. I have not seen an editor capable of doing XML 
source in a productive manner, like (La)TeX with text editor. 
OmniOutliner for OS X is close to being close, but too far from the 
goal to use. Is there some "special thing" I don't know? ???

Thanks.

Bob Kerstetter
http://homepage.mac.com/bkerstetter/