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

On 10/13/2016 10:40 PM, Saša Janiška wrote:

Pablo Rodriguez writes:

Hello Pablo,

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since ConTeXt can handle XML natively, how about converting AsciiDoc to an XML presentation and then compiling the XML file with ConTeXt?

I must admit I was not aware of that.

Hi Gour, this feature makes ConTeXt much superior than LaTeX, but not all TeX users are aware of this jewel.

AsciiDoc can convert to e.g. DocBook(5), but I wonder if/how ConTeXt could handle it?

Sure it can handle it, but I wonder whether this would make sense. (I mean, does DocBook handle slides?) HTML is XML too. So, you might use a intermediate format such as HTML.

I’ve found something: http://doctribute.com/blog/003-docbook-to-context-xsl-stylesheets-en.html but this involves fiddling with XSL stylesheets, while Pandoc’s covnersion from DocBook to ConTexT eliminates need for them.

My personal experience/experiment is http://www.from-pandoc-to-context.tk. It shows that I still have to learn a lot of ConTeXt ;-). But this approach allows me to generate (with pandoc) PDF and ePub documents from exactly the same source. I only need to write the style files for each. I use this approach for books, such as http://www.un-solo-origen.tk (sorry, it’s in Spanish). Actually, the problem with pandoc is that it has to deal with XML with the LaTeX input format. I mean, this is crazy.

Another option would be to just bite the bullet and learn ConTeXt properly to be use for *all* serious writings which makes sense if I consider that I *might* need to produce one presentation every 2 weeks which is more the one hundred per year. :-O

ConTeXt XML input will afford you the markup, but you’ll have to know how to deal with the slides in ConTeXt :-).

In that case it would be nice to have bette/more support in my (Emacs) editor, but that’s another topic for another thread after I did discover related thread in AUCTeX list today. ;)

Sorry, but the issue about editors is beyond my knowledge. I use geany and I’m fine with it. But I’m only an average computer user. Just in case it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk