From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32026 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: OpenOffice export Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:51:53 -0700 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <457327F2.7050409@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1165204365 20741 80.91.229.2 (4 Dec 2006 03:52:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 03:52:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Dec 04 04:52:42 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gr4sg-000667-VP for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:52:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F061FC83; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:50:09 +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 21242-04-8; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:49:59 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C06E11FCD0; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:49:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F38B1FCDF for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:49:53 +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 21242-04-7 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:49:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from trueband.net (trueband.net [216.163.120.10]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 7521A1FC83 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2006 04:49:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: (qmail 15434 invoked by uid 1006); 4 Dec 2006 03:52:11 -0000 Original-Received: from ishamid@colostate.edu by rs0 by uid 1003 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 3.1.4. Clear:SA:0(2.0/100.0):. Processed in 3.431135 secs); 04 Dec 2006 03:52:11 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO trueband.net) (172.16.0.6) by -v with SMTP; 4 Dec 2006 03:52:07 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 10682 invoked from network); 4 Dec 2006 03:52:06 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO walayah-main) (67.54.131.34) by -v with SMTP; 4 Dec 2006 03:52:06 -0000 Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <457327F2.7050409@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.02 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:32026 Archived-At: On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:39:30 -0700, Hans Hagen wrote: > Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> I just learned that OOo 2.04 has a LaTeX export (downloading now). Any >> of >> you bright programmers up to writing a ConTeXt export (or porting the >> LaTeX filters to ConTeXt)? >> >> I'm quite serious: if anyone is interested I'll write (or help write) a >> grant proposal for it (I've already had some TeX-related proposals >> funded >> so...). >> >> Please write me if you are interested in a grant, or else we can just >> discuss it on dev-context@ntg.nl and get it done another way! >> > long ago for a project i played a bit with open office output (xml); the > best way do deal with it is to convert the xml into a proper document > structure instead of an office structure > > there are a few weird things in oo's xml but when one uses proper > styles and limits the user's options to the sensible ones oo can even be > a nice editor for docs that are typeset by tex while previewing in oo > (whil eediting it is not needed to see the final output) I think it's a good idea to pursue... > > so one can think of: proper xml document definition, make oo stylesheet > for this, use oo for editing, convert oo xml to xml doc def, use tex for > typesetting > > since i have no project that needs it i cannot spend time on it now But I certainly need it ;-) so the idea of a grant etc. so you (or someone) can afford to work on it sounds good. Of course we have other stuff to do right now but for the future I think this is more than worthwhile... Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/