I guess I should build a new converter suite (there's also a InDesign Tags to ConTeXt converter anywhere on my harddisk). But I won't make GUI apps, just scripts.

That's sound good ! If in python, even better ! If only scripts, the best ! Can we have more details ? -- luigi

Hello Piotr Sorry for the late reply, but could you post it to the net somewhere or to the list? Thanks, Adriaan.

Hello list,

Inevitably, it's a recurring subject. Here are my 2p. After playing with all sorts of convertors to TeX, Latex, HTML and scraping the output with Perl to obtain something useful for ConTeXt I found that what I in fact really need to preserve from a Word file are italics and footnotes. To make the long story short. IMHO the only reasonable way to go is via XSL stylesheet for ooffice. Fortunately you don't have to develop a new one from scratch which would be quite a task. There is an excellent stylesheet converting odt to mediawiki by Bernhard Haumacher odt2mediawiki.xsl It took me less than an hour to adapt it for ConTeXt output. Then you only add it as an xml filter to Open Office and from then on can convert Word to ConTeXt straight from ooffice as if it was one of its built-in export formats.

Piotr

2009/5/28 luigi scarso :

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I guess I should build a new converter suite (there's also a InDesign Tags to ConTeXt converter anywhere on my harddisk). But I won't make GUI apps, just scripts.

That's sound good ! If in python, even better ! If only scripts, the best !

Can we have more details ?

-- luigi

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On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Am 2009-05-28 um 09:45 schrieb luigi scarso:

I guess I should build a new converter suite (there's also a InDesign Tags

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to ConTeXt converter anywhere on my harddisk). But I won't make GUI apps, just scripts. That's sound good ! If in python, even better ! If only scripts, the best !

Can we have more details ?

Which conversion do you need?

If it's InDesign to ConTeXt, there's always custom programming needed - e.g. you need to know what ID paragraph style should become what ConTeXt section. (sample attached)

I'm not good in building parsers, using mostly regular expression replacements, so my converters are always limited, and manual cleanup is necessary - but they save a lot of manual work anyway!

Thank you very much! -- luigi