authoring for web and print - suggestions

authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Norbert Preining]

Dear all,

this time I have a question not concerning how to ship ConTeXt in Debian
or so, but very different.

Does anyone have experience with authoring for web and print. I.e.,
we want to maintain only one format and generate both web pages and
printed documentation from it. Is there intrinsic or through addons
support in ConteXt for this?

Any suggestion would be greatly welcome

Norbert

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Re: authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Thomas A. Schmitz]

On 05/11/2013 12:26 PM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with authoring for web and print. I.e.,
> we want to maintain only one format and generate both web pages and
> printed documentation from it. Is there intrinsic or through addons
> support in ConteXt for this?
>
> Any suggestion would be greatly welcome

I think the most natural route would be to author your content in 
generic xml. This can be wonderfully processed in ConTeXt, and you can 
use XSLT to produce xhtml. In theory, you could also directly process 
xhtml in ConTeXt, but personally (mind you, I'm no authority on these 
questions at all) writing xml (such as docbook) gives you more wiggle 
room, should you ever want to reuse your content (just think your 
organization uses a new CMS, and you need a different form of html).

Thomas
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Re: authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Ondřej Hošek]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz
<thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> I think the most natural route would be to author your content in generic
> xml. This can be wonderfully processed in ConTeXt

The relevant manual section [1] seems to be the authoritative document
on this, though I don't know how up-to-date it is. The wiki [2]
contains additional, perhaps more practical, information.

Cheers,
~~ Ondra

[1] http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-43.htm
[2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML

P.S. TU Wien represent.
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Re: authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Grant Rettke]

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http://www.leverkruid.eu/context/index.html

Looks really interesting.

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:35 AM, Ondřej Hošek <ondra.hosek@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Thomas A. Schmitz
> <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> > I think the most natural route would be to author your content in generic
> > xml. This can be wonderfully processed in ConTeXt
>
> The relevant manual section [1] seems to be the authoritative document
> on this, though I don't know how up-to-date it is. The wiki [2]
> contains additional, perhaps more practical, information.
>
> Cheers,
> ~~ Ondra
>
> [1] http://pragma-ade.com/show-man-43.htm
> [2] http://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML
>
> P.S. TU Wien represent.
>
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Re: authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/11/2013 2:47 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
> http://www.leverkruid.eu/context/index.html
>
> Looks really interesting.

Don't go that route ... it's mkii based and overloads low level context 
commands (which even for that approach is not needed). It's far more 
convenient to use mkiv's tree based xml handler with expressions.

Hans

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Re: authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Grant Rettke]

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On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> On 5/11/2013 2:47 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
>
>> http://www.leverkruid.eu/**context/index.html<http://www.leverkruid.eu/context/index.html>
>>
>> Looks really interesting.
>>
>
> Don't go that route ... it's mkii based and overloads low level context
> commands (which even for that approach is not needed). It's far more
> convenient to use mkiv's tree based xml handler with expressions.
>

Understood. Thanks!

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Re: authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Martin Schröder]

2013/5/11 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>:
> Does anyone have experience with authoring for web and print. I.e.,
> we want to maintain only one format and generate both web pages and
> printed documentation from it. Is there intrinsic or through addons
> support in ConteXt for this?

Consider pandoc.
But you probably need math. :-)

Best
   Martin
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Re: authoring for web and print - suggestions

[Mica Semrick]

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I've always thought that TEI-Lite was a nice, general purpose xml markup.
There is already an example of an XML stylesheet on the wiki.


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Martin Schröder <martin@oneiros.de> wrote:

> 2013/5/11 Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>:
> > Does anyone have experience with authoring for web and print. I.e.,
> > we want to maintain only one format and generate both web pages and
> > printed documentation from it. Is there intrinsic or through addons
> > support in ConteXt for this?
>
> Consider pandoc.
> But you probably need math. :-)
>
> Best
>    Martin
>
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