On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Manfred Lotz wrote:

work for ConTeXt and then I would like to know what other alternatives

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I have. Also regarding rtf or/and odt.

Since you do not need any fancy features, a simpler option is to use markdown as your starting format and use pandoc to convert it to context, html, and odt. However, creating even slightly complicated tables in markdown is a pain, unless your editor supports an ascii table mode.

This is indeed a decent solution, one which worked for typesetting my thesis in PDF and HTML. (You get RTF and ODT for free, assuming it doesn't take much glue to get it to look the way you want). I had to write a wrapper script to do regular expression parsing to take care of edge cases (pandoc is written in Haskell, so to 'scripting' the application requires working in that language; my choice was to do a more hackish approach that used a Ruby script that generated multiple markdown files) Aditya, do perhaps know one of these editors with ASCII table mode?

Aditya

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On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:00:38 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan wrote:

On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Manfred Lotz wrote:

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I'm in a situation where I have to do some documentation which should be available in html and rtf/odt (would be nice to have).

There is an experimental feature of converting ConTeXt to XML. You can then process XML using standard XML tools to get HTML.

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I do not need any fancy stuff, just simple things: ordered, unordered lists, verbatim, tables etc.

\setupbackend[export=yes]

! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \setupbackend [export=yes] This doesn't work for me. Perhaps my context from TeXLive 2010 is too old. Not quite sure about that.

Since you do not need any fancy features, a simpler option is to use markdown as your starting format and use pandoc to convert it to context, html, and odt. However, creating even slightly complicated tables in markdown is a pain, unless your editor supports an ascii table mode.

Thanks for pointing me to pandoc. On the one hand it works very well but on the other hand it (markdown) seems a bit too rudimentary. -- Manfred

On 7-11-2010 11:54, Manfred Lotz wrote:

On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:00:38 -0400 (EDT) Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Sat, 6 Nov 2010, Manfred Lotz wrote:

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I'm in a situation where I have to do some documentation which should be available in html and rtf/odt (would be nice to have).

There is an experimental feature of converting ConTeXt to XML. You can then process XML using standard XML tools to get HTML.

...

I do not need any fancy stuff, just simple things: ordered, unordered lists, verbatim, tables etc.

\setupbackend[export=yes]

! Undefined control sequence. l.1 \setupbackend [export=yes]

This doesn't work for me. Perhaps my context from TeXLive 2010 is too old. Not quite sure about that.

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