From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/73273 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs? Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1324222800 30039 80.91.229.12 (18 Dec 2011 15:40:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:40:00 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 18 16:39:56 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 1RcIqA-00047F-9U for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1B72CB190; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:53 +0100 (CET) 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 xEPIed7IFIHo; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B5F7CB189; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:51 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7C3CB189 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:50 +0100 (CET) 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 vOmJBdeiU7ff for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC6F2CB188 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id pBIFdbCQ003262 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:37 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RcIps-00040d-IV for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:36 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe-69-133-124-182.woh.res.rr.com ([69.133.124.182]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:36 +0100 Original-Received: from bdarcus.lists by cpe-69-133-124-182.woh.res.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:39:36 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 69.133.124.182 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.63 Safari/535.7) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=80.91.229.12; country=NO; latitude=62.0000; longitude=10.0000; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=62.0000,10.0000&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06GaDDBpJ - ee2e80742b60 - 20111218 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 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:73273 Archived-At: Roger Mason mun.ca> writes: > > Chris, > > Chris Lott chrislott.org> writes: > > > > > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to > > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting > > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... > > is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this isn't super-high on my list, > > but it would be nice. > > > 4) How about X/HTML? this is my lowest level need but, again, it would be nice. > > One option would be to use markdown with pandoc. > > http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ > > I mostly write in > ConTeXt, but if I know I must share with users of word processors then > markdown + pandoc is a good option. And to the OP's original point about academic writing, pandoc has built-in (if fairly new) citation processing. I would think it would work quite well for work in the humanities. I would give pandoc a try and see if it fits your needs, and then use TeX in some form to get PDF output. Bruce ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________