On 2/19/19 2:22 PM, Gour wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:08:44 +0100 Pablo Rodriguez wrote: > [...] >> I convert Markdown to XHTML and then I compile the XML sources with >> ConTeXt. > > I've tried it and it works nicely. The possibility to have one-source-does-all > is tempting. ;) > > Now I wonder if you're still behind the tool and/or whether it is still > actively used by you?
Hi Gour, sorry for my delayed reply. I’m still behind the environment itself, although I realized that these may not be relevant to everybody. I store the new commits in a private repository. I use the XML handling (generating the XHTML with pandoc) in ConTeXt for almost all the documents I compile with ConTeXt. I think this is the way to go. My environment is only an example. You may write another one for your own needs, you don’t have to use mine. > Another question for both you and Aditya in regard to the point made by Mojca > (suggesting to use Asciidoc markup) is whether you find that Pandoc's > (extended) Markdown is semantically rich-enough to cover more complex > documents > or in such cases it would be better to use richer markup like Asciidoc or > simpy > to directly use ConTeXt? I use extended Markdown even for typesetting a ConTeXt introduction in Spanish (http://www.aprender-context.tk/). But there are some basic features that I miss from extended Markdown: - A lightweight syntax for language (such as [Deutsch]{:de}). - The ability to place the table of contents. - The ability to place the footnotes/endnotes. There may be others, but these are the three ones that first came to my mind . > So far, one thing is clear: ConTeXt is the way to go instead of LaTeX and > other > options, but now have to resolve whether to use pandoc's markdown, AsciiDoc or > just ConTeXt... There are other options, but LaTeX is a real problem for the development of pandoc, because many times users expect pandoc as a layer that spares them the actual dealing with LaTeX. (La)TeX input sources and XML markup are diverse, this is why I think that pandoc should generate PDF documents from XML sources (and forget about (La)TeX support). But this is only my personal opinion. I hope it might help. Cheers, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
