From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/14223 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Kerstetter Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt Switcher? Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 15:51:18 -0600 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v606) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070920769 6052 80.91.224.253 (8 Dec 2003 21:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 21:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Mon Dec 08 22:59:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ATTPa-0004pY-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 22:59:26 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B40E10B03; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 22:59:22 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.47]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11B9410ABB for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 22:51:21 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mac.com (smtpin08-en2 [10.13.10.153]) by smtpout.mac.com (8.12.6/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id hB8LpKHQ026031 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:51:20 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.105] (c-24-1-248-172.client.comcast.net [24.1.248.172]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin08/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id hB8LpJxO029762 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2003 13:51:20 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.606) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:14223 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:14223 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:

“Hello world”

, 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/