RE: Context -> html

["David Somers" <dsomers@trevezel.com>]

> * Berend de Boer (berend@pobox.com) wrote:
> > John Devereux <jd@plastech-controls.com> writes:
> >
> > > As far as I can tell, there does not seem to be any support for
> > > producing html versions of Context documents. Is this correct? I would
> > > very much like to be able to produce html and pdf versions of a
> > > document. Any ideas?
> >
> > I've written such a converter, and it works reasonably well if you
> > don't use math. If you use MathML, support for this should be easy to
> > add. Unfortunately, I've not been able to release/demonstrate it right
> > now.
> >
> > You can send me your file, and I'll convert it.
>
> Berend, thanks very much for the offer, but I was unclear. There
> eventually would be lots of documents, so I would need to have the
> capability to do it myself!

I hate to say this, but "Me too!". I would really appreciate the ability for
Context to be used to generate HTML docs... and like John I've a bunch of
documents to convert. (My "evil-twin" has just appeared and said: if you can
squeeze HTML out of Context, why not go the whole hog and produce HTML that
can then be put through the MS HTML Help compiler... that way, you can use
ConTeXt for PDF, HTML, and HTMLHelp production!)

I've recently started to use Context, and whilst I could never really 'get
into' TeX or LaTeX, I'm really having fun with Context, although I am having
a few newbie problems! Some of the things that have me confused:

I've wrapped the structure of my document with

\startfrontmatter ... \stopfrontmatter
\startbodymatter ... \stopbodymatter
\startbackmatter and \stopbackmatter

What I want to do is have the page numbering in the front matter be in
roman, in the body start at 1 and be in arabic, and in the back matter
continue in arabic. How would I do this?

Also, prior to the \startfrontmatter I enclose within \startstandardmakeup
\stopstandardmakeup a bunch of commands to generate my title pages... is
this correct?

I've got a documement that uses defines (like \def\DOCTYP{Functional
Specification for Release 2002.11}). If I then delete the define and try to
texexec I get a lot of errors... if I delete all the temporary files then
texexec works... I assume this is some kinda texexec problem?

And finally (this is probably for Hans Hagen), after trolling through all
the Context documentation, I'd like to know more about Hasselt! Is there a
whole book about it, or did you just make up the bits of text?

Regards,

David Somers