Am 2013-01-31 um 00:54 schrieb Bill Meahan:
Scribus (~InDesign) has an XML-based format, too but no direct conversion to M$-word. Doesn't look all that bad to me but I'm hardly an XML expert.
Some 10 years ago I was looking for a XML based layout format to use as exchange standard for newspaper ads between a web-based editor and other layout/workflow tools. I looked at Scribus - at that time a nearly undocumented mess. Maybe it’s better now.
At least it's free (beer and freedom). Sigil works directly on epub2 (XHTML+) but doesn't support epub3 (XHTML++) yet. TEI tools can convert odt -> XHTML, epub2 epub3 and several others including LaTeX but not ConTeXt. How successfully is another question.
(X)HTML is also (used, even if not planned as) view-based, not structurally meaningful, so you'd need a limited and defined "subset" of HTML to make meaningful TeX code from it - not very different from word processor usage. It *is* possible to use MS Word with proper styles and structure... Greetlings, Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)