Re: Doc to ConTeXt [was Re: HTML to ConTeXt]

["Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

Hi Andrea,

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:30:36 -0700, Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it> wrote:

> Hi to all (Idris, in particular, as we are always dealing with the
> same problems... ),
>
> I just want to share some thoughts about the ol' damn' problem of
> converting to ConTeXt from Word et al.
>
>> As I told Andrea: For relatively simple documents (like the kind we
>> use in
>> academic journals) it seems we can now
>>
>> 1) convert doc to odt using OOo
>> 2) convert odt to markdown using

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Odt2txt.py

3) use the pandoc utility to convert markdown to ConTeXt.

[you left this out]

> As suggest by Idris, I subscribed to the pandoc list, but I have to
> say that the activity is not exactly like the one on ConTeXt list...
> So the actual support for ConTeXt conversion is not convincing. More,
> it's always better to put the hands on your machine...

Did you try the markdown-to-ConTeXt conversion? The  
doc-odt-markdown-context workflow seems pretty useful as is. See also

http://code.google.com/p/pandoc/wiki/ConTeXtImprovements

I'm working on something else related to this issue that I hope to say  
more about in the coming weeks ;-)

Best wishes
Idris
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International Journal of Shi`i Studies
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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