From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/70093 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: ConTeXt to Markdown (was Edit a ConTeXt generated document with Adobe Acrobat Professional) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:10:04 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <4E1EFF0C.50401@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1311012670 20280 80.91.229.12 (18 Jul 2011 18:11:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:11:10 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jul 18 20:11:05 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QisHY-0007A2-5T for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:11:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C75BCAE59; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:11:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id q3VnOj1BaRno; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:10:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5630CAE44; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:10:57 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF34CAE44 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:10:57 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id jF7NiBSNhtjm for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (filter2-nij.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D5A7CAB80 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:10:55 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by filter2-nij.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id p6IIAqqj003584 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:10:54 +0200 Original-Received: FROM [10.0.2.15] (bas3-montreal02-1096681987.dsl.bell.ca [65.94.10.3]) By hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4E24772B.6722D.3002 ; Authuser adityam; 18 Jul 2011 14:10:51 EDT In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.82; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0aF9uaQV2 - babe512e849c - 20110718 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:70093 Archived-At: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, John Haltiwanger wrote: > PS. For what it is worth, I do not think it would be _too_ hard to create a > Context to Markdown translator. Yes. A while back I did some tests (though I cannot find them now), and had most of the basic ConTeXt-to-markdown working (sections, blockquotes, typing, itemize, footnotes (via endnotes); but no tables and figures). The main idea was to *typeset* the output as you would expect a markdown documnet to be, and then use pdftotext to convert it to text. (Hans had mentioned this as a possible way to convert to HTML during TUG 2009). Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________