On Nov 29, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Roger Mason wrote: > Hello, > > I'm thinking of making the switch from latex to context, indeed I'm > working on my first non-trivial document as a trial. I have some > questions. > > (1) Is it possible to do conditional compilation? I wish to use > context to write lecture notes with embedded pictures. I'd like to > compile the document into one form to hand out to the class (or make > available on the web) and another to be used as a presentation, much > like latex-beamer, with just the pictures.
This is in fact quite easy with ConTeXt, you can use different modes. If you excuse the shameless plug, I wrote something in the PracTeX journal that may get you started: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2006-2/schmitz/ > > > (2) Is it possible to convert context into plain text (i.e. strip out > the formatting instructions)? This may seem eccentric but it might, > with some programming, offer a means to put document content into a > relational database, perhaps in paragraph chunks. > I'm not aware of anything like that, but you can always use a tool such as pdftotext (part of xpdf, whch is available on any reasonable platform) on the pdf files that ConTeXt creates. HTH Thomas ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
