[NTG-context] Re: ntg-context digest, Vol 1 #581 - 7 msgs

Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 01:27:34 +0100 From: Giuseppe Bilotta To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Subject: Re[2]: [NTG-context] ConTeXt Switcher? Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl

Not that I see the purpose of using Word in the frist place. Any decent editor has enough macro power to do the same.

-- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

You missed the point. You markup and style your document using Word stylesheets, and then XML is a matter of search and replace. A hold load better than a lame text-editor. If Word hadn't got such a stupid macro installation technology (templates have never been promoted properly by Micor$oft) this would be routine stuff. It would probably be a pain to automatically markup tables, and handling image properties is something I haven't investigated, but as a 50% solution it works for me. As for TOCs and bibliographies, use Context. btw exactly the same technique works for generating LaTeX commands. Context is just so much more elegant. Christopher