Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

On 10/14/2016 12:05 AM, Saša Janiška wrote:

Pablo Rodriguez writes:

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What you can achieve is:

AsciiDoc -> HTML -> PDF generated by ConTeXt

If the conversion to HTML is fine, you even avoid the conversion to ConTeXt input format (and you might be very close to parse AsciiDoc sources with ConTeXt).

Hmm…that’s quite new idea for me and it needs some practical testing. ;)

Before we started with context we uses ascii based markup (i still have printouts of the code used for pagination, figure placement, tocs around somewhere) ... but as the input becomes more complex it makes no sense any more to use such formats and tex (or nowadays xml) starts looking clean and simple in comparison writing an asciidoc parser that directly maps to context is not that hard but i'd probably quickly start asking myself: why ... esp when the extras are to be dealt with: [[terms]] [glossary] List of Terms ------------- ["glossary",id="terms"] List of Terms ------------- [template="glossary",id="terms"] List of Terms ------------- where \startglossary[reference=terms,title={List of Terms}] is not that more coding. Anyway, using some asciidoc (should be utfdoc i guess) converted to some kind of xml is probably the easiest to deal with. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------