First of all, thank you for your propositions, About markup format: -------------------- (---- a markdown header ;-) Markdown seems an interesting one because: - it's alive (as many other format) - it's available in severall scripting languages (ruby, php, python...) - it seems extensible - it is (more or less) translatable to docbook (and finaly to xxTeX) so allows good quality pdf results About docbook: -------------- But one current need is about docbook, because file already exists as a "dokuwiki hacked" generated file (by a php expert from jelix team) ! So other wiki format is not an option? docbook is request About the pandoc tools: ----------------------- Le 3 juin 08 à 16:09, Gour a écrit :
Take a look at http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ - it uses 'extended' markdown syntax and can export to ConTeXt.
But Gour said alsewhere:
...it doesn’t handle tables,...
Interesting, but a first try didn't compile with macport (GHC didn't compile). But not important: was just for trying... About dblatex tools ------------------- It just works for now but need LaTeX custom style for advanced customisation which is much lower level than ConTeXt one, so... About ConTeXt tools (THE important information ;-)) =================== Le 3 juin 08 à 15:11, Hans Hagen a écrit :
If some magic command (or a simple tutorial) like : texexec --docbook jelix-manual.xml do some equivalent work than the above dblatex, no doubt that the ConTeXt community will increase by more than 100%!
i can probably cook up a basic docbook converter in a couple of hours but since i never run into docbook ...
So instead of the "not in ConTeXt objective" expected response, this is a great news. For all (docbook + ConTeXt) tool maintainers like "dbcontext" or "DocbookInContext", it is a great opportunity to help Hans defining a standard module which would then be maintain in the standard ConTeXt distribution. Other replies about dbcontext tools : ------------------------------------- Le 3 juin 08 à 09:43, Wolfgang Schuster a écrit :
- dbcontext seams not to be maintained very much
I don't think the code in the module is nowadays a good example for writing a module because many low level commands are redefined and it should work now out of the box with the current code or better witth MkIV.
I thought so, but ... Le 3 juin 08 à 20:22, nico a écrit :
- dbcontext seams not to be maintained very much
dbcontext is still alive, but asleep because of few users, and mostly works in the current state. You can give it a try. You can provide your own context layout to customize section titles and layout. It is much cleaner and easier than the latex .sty hack. As an example of the powerful layout capabilities that ConTeXt provides, you can build a PDF with a layout similar to what docbook FO does.
So dbcontext resume in a ConTeXt module, it should be part od the context distrib (as a contrib): see above about Hans response. -- Maurice