Re: [NTG-context] context -> docx ??

On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:34:21 +0100 Marcin Borkowski wrote:

On 2015-01-13, at 20:59, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:

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Dear gang,

I'm currently writing a paper with very basic typographical needs: blockquotes, emphasis, bibliography, perhaps a graphic or two. The publisher wants the thing in Word, naturally. The last time I did something like this I set up a markdown document and just exported it to both docx and to context. For simple documents this is at least workable, but I'd prefer to write in context, not markdown.

While I /do/ understand you (it's the same with me, only that I'm more comfortable with LaTeX), have you considered Org-mode? It's similar to markdown (though better IMHO), but it comes with great support in Emacs. And you get export to odt "for free". (Also to LaTeX, though unfortunately not to ConTeXt; OTOH, writing a ConTeXt exporter should be fairly easy, and a simple exporter could be done in a few days - the framework for writing exporters to different formats is very well done. Incidentally, there's also a Markdown exporter, so you could probably get to ConTeXt via markdown).

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Best wishes Idris

Best,

Org-mode does not simply come with great support in Emacs, it is essentially an emacs module I believe. Using ConTeXt (not emacs, markdown, or other such things...) you can indeed export to xml, xhtml, and create epub files. How these can get converted to Word is another problem that is to be addressed to the MS-Word community. Hans showed us at the last ConTeXt conference: MWE: \enablemode[export] \startmode[export] \setupbackend [export=yes, xhtml=yes, css=export-example.css] \setupexport [hyphen=yes, width=60em] \stopmode \starttext \startquotation \input darwin \stopquotation \stoptext The css example file can be found in the standalone: tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/export-example.css This creates a filename-export directory. The xhtml file can be read in a browser. (some tools seem to have problem with the hyphen=yes option) You will also notice the message: backend > export > create epub with: mtxrun --script epub --make "filename" [--purge --rename --svgmath] Running mtxrun will create the epub file. I have tested reading it on an iPad. There must be some way to get this into Word... Alan