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On 2/19/19 2:22 PM, Gour wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:08:44 +0100 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: [...]
I convert Markdown to XHTML and then I compile the XML sources with ConTeXt.
I've tried it and it works nicely. The possibility to have one-source-does-all is tempting. ;)
Now I wonder if you're still behind the tool and/or whether it is still actively used by you?
Hi Gour, sorry for my delayed reply. I’m still behind the environment itself, although I realized that these may not be relevant to everybody. I store the new commits in a private repository. I use the XML handling (generating the XHTML with pandoc) in ConTeXt for almost all the documents I compile with ConTeXt. I think this is the way to go. My environment is only an example. You may write another one for your own needs, you don’t have to use mine.
Another question for both you and Aditya in regard to the point made by Mojca (suggesting to use Asciidoc markup) is whether you find that Pandoc's (extended) Markdown is semantically rich-enough to cover more complex documents or in such cases it would be better to use richer markup like Asciidoc or simpy to directly use ConTeXt?
I use extended Markdown even for typesetting a ConTeXt introduction in Spanish (http://www.aprender-context.tk/). But there are some basic features that I miss from extended Markdown: - A lightweight syntax for language (such as [Deutsch]{:de}). - The ability to place the table of contents. - The ability to place the footnotes/endnotes. There may be others, but these are the three ones that first came to my mind .
So far, one thing is clear: ConTeXt is the way to go instead of LaTeX and other options, but now have to resolve whether to use pandoc's markdown, AsciiDoc or just ConTeXt...
There are other options, but LaTeX is a real problem for the development of pandoc, because many times users expect pandoc as a layer that spares them the actual dealing with LaTeX. (La)TeX input sources and XML markup are diverse, this is why I think that pandoc should generate PDF documents from XML sources (and forget about (La)TeX support). But this is only my personal opinion. I hope it might help. Cheers, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk