From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37593 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Roger Mason Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: switching to Context Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:47:40 -0330 Message-ID: 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 1196338711 14201 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2007 12:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:18:31 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 29 13:18:39 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 1IxiLe-0008G5-1l for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:18:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979761FAF4; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:18:08 +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 29748-02; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:17:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7BC31FAD2; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:17:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 868F71FAD2 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:17:54 +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 18159-04-2 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:17:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (mx5.mun.ca [134.153.232.57]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A4AF1FAAB for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:17:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.8]) by fitzgerald.ucs.mun.ca (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id lATCHlNC021544 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:47:47 -0330 Original-Received: from minnie.esd.mun.ca (minnie.esd.mun.ca [134.153.36.8]) by minnie.esd.mun.ca (8.14.0/8.13.3) with ESMTP id lATCHeHF015927 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:47:40 -0330 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.57 on 134.153.232.57 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:37593 Archived-At: Hello, I'm thinking of making the switch from latex to context, indeed I'm working on my first non-trivial document as a trial. I have some questions. (1) Is it possible to do conditional compilation? I wish to use context to write lecture notes with embedded pictures. I'd like to compile the document into one form to hand out to the class (or make available on the web) and another to be used as a presentation, much like latex-beamer, with just the pictures. (2) Is it possible to convert context into plain text (i.e. strip out the formatting instructions)? This may seem eccentric but it might, with some programming, offer a means to put document content into a relational database, perhaps in paragraph chunks. Thanks, Roger ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________