Re: [NTG-context] Help with typesetting footnotes in an HTML document

12 Apr 2023

      Depending on how complex your files are, you might want to have a look at pandoc. It does a decent job when converting docx to other formats (HTML, Markdown or even ConTeXt).

Best & good luck
Denis
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Von: Keith McKay 
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. April 2023 12:22
An: Maier, Denis Christian (UB) ; ntg-
context@ntg.nl
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HTML document
Hi Denis,
Thanks for the code, I shall give this a try.
To get the html file I convert a docx file using a wordpress multisite app called
Pressbooks, a book content management system for book publishing in
various formats such as the web, pdf, epub and various xml flavours (see
pressbooks.com). My interest was that docx files could be imported into
pressbooks, edited and then exported as html which I then used in ConTeXt
to produce pdf. Pressbooks has an open source option and they give
instructions on how to self-host on a local web server, which is what I have
done (see pressbooks.org). It is, I suppose, like using a sledgehammer to
crack a nut, and the html files produced are quite complicated. I'm still in the
experimental stage with it.
Before trying out Pressbooks, I had previously produced two
books(novels) by converting docx files to epub using an epub extension to
Libre Office, then edit/clean-up the epub using Sigil epub editor.
Finally I extract the individual xhtml files and input into ConTeXt.
That was much easier and the files much less complicated, however those
books did not have footnotes so I shall have to check that out in Sigil.
I'm still experimenting to get a simple workflow for the conversion of docx
files to simple (x)html files.
Thanks again for the code.
Best Wishes
Keith
On 12/04/2023 09:05, denis.maier@unibe.ch wrote:
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Hey Keith,
the code below should get you started. Obviously, the links in the
footnotes don't appear as there are no setups for the <a> elements yet.
By the way, where is the HTML coming from? The dual structure for
footnotes looks a bit odd and a bit too complicated for me.
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\startxmlsetups xml:initialize
\xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{*}{-}
\xmlsetsetup{\xmldocument}{html|body|p|}{xml:*}
%\xmlsetsetup{#1}{span[@class="data-fnref"]}{xml:footnote} % data-
fnref is not a class; also -> the element won't be seen if the parent span is
not treated in some way.
\xmlsetsetup{#1}{span[@class="footnote"]}{xml:footnote-wrapper}
\xmlsetsetup{#1}{span[@class="footnote-indirect"]}{xml:footnote}
\xmlsetsetup{#1}{div[@class="footnotes"]}{xml:nothing}
\stopxmlsetups
\xmlregistersetup{xml:initialize}
\startxmlsetups xml:html
\xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:body
\xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:p
\xmlflush{#1}\par
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:footnote-wrapper
\xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:footnote
\footnote
%
{\xmlfirst{test}{div[@class="footnotes"]/div/div[@id="\xmlatt{#1}{id}"
]}} -> test is not the document name nor the name of the node to be
processed>; div/div nesting was wrong; for some reason I can't get it
to work with xmlfirst. But \xmlfilter works
{\xmlfilter{\xmldocument}{div[@id='\xmlrefatt{#1}{data-fnref}']/comman
d(xml:test)}}
\stopxmlsetups
\startxmlsetups xml:test
\xmlflush{#1}
\stopxmlsetups
\starttext
\xmlprocessfile{initialise}{footnoteTest.html}{}
\stoptext
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Von: Keith McKay 
Gesendet: Dienstag, 11. April 2023 17:53
An: Maier, Denis Christian (UB) ; ntg-
context@ntg.nl
Betreff: Re: AW: [NTG-context] Help with typesetting footnotes in an
HTML document
Fair comment Denis.
I decided to try the lookup based approach on pages 85 - 86 of the
xml manual and my setups are based on those pages. I have to admit
that I find the xml manual a wee bit difficult in places since xml is outside
my expertise.
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I attach my tex and html files which should save some copy and pasting.
Thanks
Keith McKay
On 11/04/2023 14:51, denis.maier@unibe.ch wrote:
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Hard to tell, if you don't show us what you've tried so far.
In one of my setups I use the lua based approach described on page
86/87.
But again, we'll probably need more information to figure it out.
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McKay via ntg-context
Gesendet: Montag, 10. April 2023 17:30
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Cc: Keith McKay 
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document
Hi,
I have been puzzling over how to typeset footnotes in a HTML
document, most elements have been relatively easy to typeset but
I'm stumped with footnotes.  I have been studying the the xml
manual in particular Chapter  7.4 Cross Referencing, but I'm still
struggling to get xmlsetups which come anywhere near working. Any
hints  to a solution would be greatly appreciated.
Best Wishes
Keith McKay
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Here is a snippet of the HTML document with footnotes
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
     <title></title>
</head>
<body>
     <p class="import-Normal">‘What is a weed? A plant whose
virtues have not been discovered,’ wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson<span
class="footnote"><span class="footnote-indirect"
data-fnref="53-1"></span></span>. Those delicate crucifers with
their manifold faces of four pink or lilac petals striated with
veins of deeper lavender are the perfect introduction to flowers for
children.
So delicate and yet hardy.</p>
     <p class="import-Normal">I spend some of April abroad,
travelling by road from an unseasonably snowy Austria (‘dieses
Wetter ist verrückt!’<span class="footnote"><span class="footnote-
indirect"
data-fnref="53-2"></span></span> as an elderly lady exclaimed to
me) to northern France, and when I come home, it’s to a landscape
responding to substantially increased light levels and
temperatures.</p>
     <p class="import-Normal">This was the early sixties. Like many
thousands, we were rehoused from Maryhill in the heart of urban
Glasgow to this peripheral housing scheme which completely changed
the character of what had been a village. Within a decade those
glasshouses were abandoned, glass broken in the frames, and a row
of shops that included a chippy and a betting shop soon replaced
them, betting ‘off’ licensed race-tracks having become legal in
1961.<span class="footnote"><span class="footnote- indirect"
data-fnref="75-
1"></span></span></p>
     <div class="footnotes">
       <hr/>
       <div id='53-1'>
         Emerson, R.W. (1878) <em>Fortune of the Republic</em>, p.3
quoted in <em>Oxford Dictionary of Quotations</em>, Rev Fourth
Edition (1996).
       </div>
       <div id='53-2'>
         ‘Crazy weather!’
       </div>
       <div id='75-1'>
         <a class="rId10"
href="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing/our-national-love-
a
ff
air- a-history-of-the-betting-shop-804966.html"
data-url="http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing/our-national-lo
ve
- affair-a-history-of-the-betting-shop-804966.html"><span
class="import-
Hyperlink">http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/racing/ou
r-
national-love-affair-a-history-of-the-betting-shop-804966.html
</a>
[accessed 11 Dec 2017]
       </div>
     </div>
</body>
</html>
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Re: [NTG-context] Help with typesetting footnotes in an HTML document

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