Re: [NTG-context] Ideas for restructuring the ConTeXt garden?

FWIW, specifications of standard LaTeX styles can be found herehttp://www.tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Master/texmf-dist/doc/latex/base/classes.p.... It's a closely written 66 page document. -Alasdair On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Martin Schröder wrote:

...

The hard part is figuring out the values (font size, spaces after

2011/3/14 Aditya Mahajan : sections,

...

etc) from the LaTeX code. It is difficult to look at http://mirror.hmc.edu/ctan/macros/latex/contrib/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.clsand figure out what is the title size for a 10pt document, or how much space should come between the author block and the start of the two column text, etc.

Erm - is that really needed? Today a typical journal's workflow should accept articles in LaTeX _markup_, convert that to XML and feed it to an XML formatter (which may well use TeX) eventually. I see ConTeXt's role there as the XML formatter. Or it could digest LaTeX markup - but then it would need more than just the layout.

Best Martin

___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net

___________________________________________________________________________________

-- Blog: http://amca01.wordpress.com Web: http://bit.ly/Alasdair Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/alasdair.mcandrew