2011/7/19 Hans Hagen

On 19-7-2011 10:47, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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I another thread I talked about my problems with converting my ConTeXt file to an editable format. In principal going the xhtml way seemed best.

But yesterday I got talking with someone in the train. He told me that it was possible to convert ConTeXt to LaTeXt and LaTeXt to an ODT file. This could solve my problem. Was this person correct? If yes, how would I do this?

"context -> latex" sounds like a no-go to me

Okay, I'll discard this option then. (Or someone else must have a way to do the ConTeXt -> LaTeXt part.) At some point if could be interesting to see if we could go from the context

xml export (structure makeup) to odt (office makeup) but it's not something that I'll do for fun (I have no need for it anyway).

If I could help in a way … -- Cecil Westerhof

2011/7/19 Mojca Miklavec :

If you can throw away any formatting you did and if you didn't use too many ConTeXt specific tricks, you can "simply rewrite" your code to LaTeX with a few regular expressions etc. But in the same spirit it might be way easier to just "convert" the document straight to ODT using copy-paste and applying some formatting there.

Or, if you know up front that you need multiple output formats, you could use Markdown/Pandoc etc. and let it generate ConTeXt as needed. Best Martin

On 19-7-2011 12:15, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:41, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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Okay, I'll discard this option then. (Or someone else must have a way to do the ConTeXt -> LaTeXt part.)

Keep in mind that ConTeXt -> ODT should in theory be doable as well, but the author of tex4ht died and it is very unlikely that the conversion would work without any problems and even more unlikely that anyone would know how to fix it.

If you can throw away any formatting you did and if you didn't use too many ConTeXt specific tricks, you can "simply rewrite" your code to LaTeX with a few regular expressions etc. But in the same spirit it might be way easier to just "convert" the document straight to ODT using copy-paste and applying some formatting there.

It also depends on the requirement. Of a document only has some sectioning, itemize, and tables (and the majority of the document have) then some simple convertable input format can do. For more complex documents you end up with either coding in tex or when multiple output is needed xml is a good choice. When coding in tex, the xml/xhtml can be of help (and it will evolve) as it provides a pretty complete structure of the document. Concerning OTD: if you need to be roundtrip, then you also need to be able to convert back, which might be non trivial. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:50, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

As I understand it: after delivery we do not have to change the document anymore. And if we have, well we just use Open Office. (Or Libre.)

I wonder why someone would want to hire third-party to create them a document in OpenOffice if they: - know how to use OpenOffice - don't need proffessional typography - have to provide input/text in some form anyway What was their input? Was it a database at least? Mojca

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:15:46PM +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:41, Cecil Westerhof wrote:

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Okay, I'll discard this option then. (Or someone else must have a way to do the ConTeXt -> LaTeXt part.)

Keep in mind that ConTeXt -> ODT should in theory be doable as well, but the author of tex4ht died and it is very unlikely that the conversion would work without any problems and even more unlikely that anyone would know how to fix it.

ODT is just another XML format, so it shouldn't be hard to do with the current export code (and IIRC they have even a "flat xml" ODT that gets the whole document in one xml file instead of the common multi-file in a zip archive format). Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Egyptian Arab