Re: converting Word to Context

Re: converting Word to Context

[Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky]

Hello,

I did only some basic steps. )) Nothing to mention yet.

What kind of documents you need to convert? Only simple ones, or 
containing formulaes, etc.?

Vyatcheslav
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Re: converting Word to Context

[Roger Mason]

Hello Vyatcheslav,

Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky@gmail.com> writes:

> I did only some basic steps. )) Nothing to mention yet.
>
> What kind of documents you need to convert? Only simple ones, or
> containing formulaes, etc.?

It is just a problem that comes up from time to time, rather than an
extensive collection of documents arriving on my desktop in one go.
Most people in my department use Word, and, although I have OpenOffice,
I don't use it other than as a means of opening and converting the Word
and Excel files that come my way.

The current document is short, simple and I dealt with it by converting to
text and doing the formatting from scratch.  However, others will
probably want to edit it and I'm sure it will arrive back on my desk in
Word again, so a less manual method of conversion would be convenient.

Cheers,
Roger
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Re: converting Word to Context

[Roger Mason]

Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:

>
> You could try to ask Steffen Wolfrum, he's a professional typesetter [1]
> and should have knowledge about word2context conversion, that's what I
> got
> from a few older mails from him.

Thanks for the suggesttion Wolfgang.

Best wishes,
Roger
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Re: converting Word to Context

[Roger Mason]

Hello Luigi,

luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> writes:

>    You can give a look also at
>    http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy

Thanks for the suggestion, I will have a look at it.

Cheers,
Roger
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Re: converting Word to Context

[luigi scarso]

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>
> Thank you for the suggestion.  Unfortunately it only runs in the Windows
> OS.  I use Linux (sorry, I should have said so at the outset).
>

You can give a look also at
http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odfpy

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Re: converting Word to Context

[Roger Mason]

Hello,

"J.A.J. Pater" <jajpater@gmail.com> writes:

> It is pretty easy when you use the word-to-latex program
> (http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/)
> See: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Word-to-LaTeX (Which could be
> renamed Word-to-ConTeXt?)
> Though I had some problems using the XML example from the above page.
> But you can make your own XML file for the program.
> I made one for use with the XeTeX engine (texexec --xtx).

Thank you for the suggestion.  Unfortunately it only runs in the Windows
OS.  I use Linux (sorry, I should have said so at the outset).

Best wishes,
Roger
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Re: converting Word to Context

[J.A.J. Pater]

I send this message already but I don't know if it is still awaiting 
moderation, because I added a large file, but here it is again.
If it's posted already sorry for the noise.

  > There was  thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context.
  > Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow?

It is pretty easy when you use the word-to-latex program
(http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/)
See: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Word-to-LaTeX (Which could be
renamed Word-to-ConTeXt?)
Though I had some problems using the XML example from the above page.
But you can make your own XML file for the program.
I made one for use with the XeTeX engine (texexec --xtx).

Lots of success!

Adriaan

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Re: converting Word to Context

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 23.04.2009 um 13:46 schrieb Roger Mason:

> Hello,
>
> There was  thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context.
> Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow?

You could try to ask Steffen Wolfrum, he's a professional typesetter [1]
and should have knowledge about word2context conversion, that's what I  
got
from a few older mails from him.

[1] http://werksatz.com/

Wolfgang

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Re: converting Word to Context

[Roger Mason]

Hello Idris,

"Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu> writes:

> Buggy but usable:
>
> OOo: doc -> odt
>
> odt2txt: odt -> markdown
>
> pandoc: markdown -> context
>
> the buggeist part of the workflow is odt2txt: sometimes it skips
> footnotes  or entire paragraphs.

Thank you.  I take it you mean odt2txt.py?  There is snother utility
(odt2txt) written in C but it seems from the web-site that it writes
plain text rather than markdown.

Cheers,
Roger
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Re: converting Word to Context

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:46:20 -0600, Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca> wrote:

> There was  thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context.
> Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow?

Buggy but usable:

OOo: doc -> odt

odt2txt: odt -> markdown

pandoc: markdown -> context

the buggeist part of the workflow is odt2txt: sometimes it skips footnotes  
or entire paragraphs.

Another option is to use context to read docx or odt xml directly, this is  
an area where I must refer you to the xml gurus on this list.

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

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converting Word to Context

[Roger Mason]

Hello,

There was  thread a while ago about converting Word docs to Context.
Did anyone make progress in setting up a workflow?

Cheers,
Roger
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