From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22685 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt to RTF Conversion Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:57:39 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <20050922100002.E15A2127F0@ronja.ntg.nl> <43328617.30205@capdm.com> <2DF694F1-C55F-47D5-95E2-1D889971836F@ensta.fr> <43331A17.1020100@creutzig.de> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127502077 20884 80.91.229.2 (23 Sep 2005 19:01:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 19:01:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Sep 23 21:01:10 2005 Return-path: 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 1EIslk-0004oI-2H for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:59:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B43612775; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:59:35 +0200 (CEST) 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 11554-01; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:59:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D56A12778; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:57:47 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D1BA12778 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:57:45 +0200 (CEST) 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 11321-03-2 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:57:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B73A12775 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:57:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.ColoState.EDU (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j8NIvgI143172 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:57:42 -0600 Original-Received: from IHAMID (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.ColoState.EDU (AIX5.3/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j8NIvfD1978736 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:57:41 -0600 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <43331A17.1020100@creutzig.de> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22685 Archived-At: Dear gang, I have followed this discussion with interest. I edit a journal myself.=20 Despite announcing loudly that it is TeX-friendly, the only person who=20 writes articles in TeX for it is, you guessed it, myself. I know next-to-nothing about xml, so I apologize if the next question is=20 ignorant: Would it be possible to define an xml format for the journal so that I=20 could more easily process both ConTeXt/LaTeX articles as well as the docs= =20 and rtfs I generally receive? Is this more work than it's worth? It's a=20 humanities journal, so little-to-no math. Best Idris On Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:54:47 +0200, Christopher Creutzig=20 wrote: >> So if I understand wml, I agree that xml is a format for filtering, >> not a human writable format. >> TeX, LaTeX or conTeXt is in input langage, which should be able to >> be converted to the powerfull master XML format. > > No, sorry. This only works for extremely simple TeX code. forget > about any real-world mathematics. Forget about 80% of what real-world > LaTeX users type into their computers. TeX has simply never been > written to be easily parsed. --=20 Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523