Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt as a service

On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 10:05, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 2019-11-22 um 09:46 schrieb Mojca Miklavec :

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On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 08:51, Jan U. Hasecke wrote:

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I am very interested in running ConTeXt as a service, too. I am still nurturing the idea of a publishing cooperative for self publishers with a Markdown --> Pandoc --> ConTeXt workflow with a nice web frontend. I hope to make it to the next ConTeXt meeting to discuss it.

If you want to start from a simple markup language, at least go for asciidoc or restructured text. Markdown is a mess for anything but very very very trivial structure, and very very soon you basically end up with "basically ugly html with some embeded plain text every now and then".

There is some proof-of-concept test document which goes via the asciidoc --[asciidoctor]--> docbook (xml) --[context]--> pdf path (but it needs more work to be fully useful).

Wouldn’t it make sense to go (X)HTML->ConTeXt?

Then you can use one of the online JS editors like CKeditor.\

Only if you spend an enormous amount of effort making sure that the code is properly cleaned up rather than containing a gazillion random html style tags which you can never reconstruct back into some structured form. (And yes, my impression is that Massi spent a huge amount of effort in configuring the editor and cleaning up the mess. My company didn't and ended up with sometimes literally every word in a sentence using a different font size or style. They gave up on html + cke pretty soon, but couldn't be convinced that this was a bad idea upfront.) Mojca