Re: ConTeXt as a service

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

Am 2019-11-22 um 09:46 schrieb Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 08:51, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:
>> 
>> I am very interested in running ConTeXt as a service, too. I am still
>> nurturing the idea of a publishing cooperative for self publishers with
>> a Markdown --> Pandoc --> ConTeXt workflow with a nice web frontend. I
>> hope to make it to the next ConTeXt meeting to discuss it.
> 
> If you want to start from a simple markup language, at least go for
> asciidoc or restructured text.
> Markdown is a mess for anything but very very very trivial structure,
> and very very soon you basically end up with "basically ugly html with
> some embeded plain text every now and then".
> 
> There is some proof-of-concept test document which goes via the
>    asciidoc --[asciidoctor]--> docbook (xml) --[context]--> pdf
> path (but it needs more work to be fully useful).

Wouldn’t it make sense to go (X)HTML->ConTeXt?

Then you can use one of the online JS editors like CKeditor.

Massi can tell more, I guess; i.e. he already told us a lot, I just can’t remember the details.
For his MEO project he extended one of the editors to allow for additional markup.


Greetlings, Hraban
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