From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37307 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Doc to ConTeXt [was Re: HTML to ConTeXt] Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:14:47 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <9AE14A44-6B23-450B-B3E5-DEE82341AFBC@di.unito.it> 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: ger.gmane.org 1194664564 26876 80.91.229.12 (10 Nov 2007 03:16:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:16:04 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Nov 10 04:16:07 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IqgpL-0005HY-2o for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:16:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68CE61FA4A; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:15:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 08574-01-6; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:14:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597DC1FAAA; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:14:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7205B1FAAA for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:14:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09477-01-6 for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:14:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from trueband.net (director.trueband.net [216.163.120.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id E66651FA4A for ; Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:14:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 12267 invoked by uid 1006); 10 Nov 2007 03:14:01 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. 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Processed in 3.238775 secs); 10 Nov 2007 03:14:01 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.4) by -v with SMTP; 10 Nov 2007 03:13:58 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 30727 invoked from network); 10 Nov 2007 03:13:56 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO your-b27fb1c401) (75.104.82.83) by -v with SMTP; 10 Nov 2007 03:13:56 -0000 User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.20 (Win32) In-Reply-To: <9AE14A44-6B23-450B-B3E5-DEE82341AFBC@di.unito.it> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:37307 Archived-At: Hi Andrea, On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:30:36 -0700, Andrea Valle 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 -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________