Re: WYSIWYM editor on top of ConTeXt / Lout

[William Adams <will.adams@frycomm.com>]

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Mentioned on their wiki at: https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportExport

On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:55 AM, William Adams <will.adams@frycomm.com>
wrote:

> Is it not an option to use LyX, and then pandoc to convert to ConTeXt?
>
> http://pandoc.org/
>
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hello Jonas,
>>
>> Jonas Baggett <jonas17b@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > Thank you for the suggestion. I was first thinking about incrementally
>> > creating a custom format that evolves as features are implemented. And
>> > for translating the custom format into a backend format, I was
>> > thinking of creating files with translations rules for each backend so
>> > that anyone can add support for a new backend or update an existing
>> > backend to add more feature or to make it compatible with a newer
>> > version of the backend, without needing to modify the editor code. A
>> > translation rule is e.g. start_section[title=<the_title>,
>> > back_ground_color=<the_color>] => @startsection(title ->
>> > {<the_title>}, bg_color -> {<the_color>}) which will convert a start
>> > section command of the document format into the same command for a
>> > backend format.
>>
>> Skribilo uses an abstract syntax internally and the different output
>> engines process that into the target language.  In essence each engine
>> is the collection of rules appropriate to that target.
>>
>> > At first glance that way seems to be the easiest way for me, but
>> > Skribilo looks interesting as a fallback option, although I find its
>> > syntax to be weird, if I find out that the idea with translation rules
>> > isn't working as expected.
>>
>> There are two input syntaxes, a simple one a bit like Emacs' outline
>> mode and the more Scheme-like syntax.  The former has limitations
>> documented on the Skribilo web-site, the latter is far more complete.  I
>> an guessing it is the Scheme-like syntax that you find weird.  I have
>> played around a a little this week on using Wisp
>> (http://www.draketo.de/proj/wisp/) and Readable
>> (http://readable.sourceforge.net/) to write Skribilo in a less
>> parenthesis rich style.  Although not able to complete the work owing to
>> time constraints, it looks acheivavble.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Roger
>>
>> Off topic
>> ========
>>
>> My goal would be to have an output ConTeXt (or Lout) document, with
>> fallback to LaTeX or XML if a publisher insists.  If this could be
>> combined with Emacs org-mode to document, store and run (or compile-run)
>> source code, then a very complete and versatile system for reproducible
>> reasearch could be constructed.
>>
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