Re: ConTeXt as a service

[Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 at 13:02, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> > Am 2019-11-23 um 08:12 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
> >>
> >> Then you can use one of the online JS editors like CKeditor.\
> >
> > Only if you spend an enormous amount of effort making sure that the
> > code is properly cleaned up rather than containing a gazillion random
> > html style tags which you can never reconstruct back into some
> > structured form.
> >
> > (And yes, my impression is that Massi spent a huge amount of effort in
> > configuring the editor and cleaning up the mess. My company didn't and
> > ended up with sometimes literally every word in a sentence using a
> > different font size or style. They gave up on html + cke pretty soon,
> > but couldn't be convinced that this was a bad idea upfront.)
>
> Don’t exaggerate. Or maybe your company didn’t think about which tags are really necessary.
> A proper configuration that doesn’t allow nonsense, even if users paste text from Word documents, is not such a big effort.

I'm not exaggerating, I would gladly be convinced/proved that I'm
wrong. How much effort (expressed in hours or days) do you think is
needed to implement the following?
(Any existing opensource solution may be used as the basis.)

My wishlist is not that demanding:
* allow generating both printable documents on white background, as
well as black slides with mostly white text (PDF as well as browsable
HTML website)
* support advanced mathematical formulas
* some sections or words do need to have some special markings (for
example apply some colours or bold/italic; the colour of course needs
to depend on background colour)
* tables need to be styled according to white the designer specifies,
but it should be very easy to change the table style after some months
* support consistently styled "CAUTION: ..., WARNING: ..., NOTE: ..."
sections inside the text (make it trivial to change the style of how
these are printed out after some months)
* support table of contents, nice front page etc.
* support vector images for PDFs

Mojca
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