I think the potential of OOo as pre-TeX wysiwyg editor is worth exploring. My own needs are for an academic journal so it's a bit urgent for me, anyway... maybe a year from now...

Also o3spaces.com seem to be a interestring project . luigi

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:39:30 -0700, Hans Hagen wrote:

Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

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Hi gang,

I just learned that OOo 2.04 has a LaTeX export (downloading now). Any of you bright programmers up to writing a ConTeXt export (or porting the LaTeX filters to ConTeXt)?

I'm quite serious: if anyone is interested I'll write (or help write) a grant proposal for it (I've already had some TeX-related proposals funded so...).

Please write me if you are interested in a grant, or else we can just discuss it on dev-context@ntg.nl and get it done another way!

long ago for a project i played a bit with open office output (xml); the best way do deal with it is to convert the xml into a proper document structure instead of an office structure

there are a few weird things in oo's xml but when one uses proper styles and limits the user's options to the sensible ones oo can even be a nice editor for docs that are typeset by tex while previewing in oo (whil eediting it is not needed to see the final output)

I think it's a good idea to pursue...

so one can think of: proper xml document definition, make oo stylesheet for this, use oo for editing, convert oo xml to xml doc def, use tex for typesetting

since i have no project that needs it i cannot spend time on it now

But I certainly need it ;-) so the idea of a grant etc. so you (or someone) can afford to work on it sounds good. Of course we have other stuff to do right now but for the future I think this is more than worthwhile... Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/

On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 20:09:51 -0700, fdu.xiaojf@gmail.com wrote:

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I just learned that OOo 2.04 has a LaTeX export (downloading now). Any of you bright programmers up to writing a ConTeXt export (or porting the LaTeX filters to ConTeXt)?

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I think ConTeXt needs a stronger version control to enable this feature.

Can you explain what you mean by this? (Sorry if I'm clueless-) Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/