Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Saša Janiška
Russell Urquhart writes: > but why couldn't you do: > > AsciiDoc => DocBook => Pandoc => reveal.js Because, as I’m told, only {txt,md} => reveal.js routes are currently supported in Pandoc. > It worked for me, here was my source: That worked, is a bit twisted in

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Russell Urquhart
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 05:29:10PM +0200, Saša Janiška wrote: > Yeah, I kmow about using e.g. AsciiDoc(tor)’s docbook5 backend to export > to DocBook which can be used as input format in Pandoc, but the problem > is if I would liek to e.g. use Pandoc to create e.g. reveal.js > presentation, then

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Saša Janiška
Hans Hagen writes: > (These projects need pdf and html, all kind of products from > one source or collection of sources). Forgot to ask, whether for those products that require pdf and html, do you work with the tex (context) sources or xml? If the answer is ’context’, I’d like

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Saša Janiška
Russell Urquhart writes: > While Pandoc does NOT input asciidoc, i use Asciidoc FX, as a > previewer, and it also exports out to html, pdf, and i think you can > get it to export to DocBook. Yeah, I kmow about using e.g. AsciiDoc(tor)’s docbook5 backend to export to

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Russell Urquhart
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 12:33:49PM +0200, Saša Janiška wrote: > Russell Urquhart writes: > > I do not (atm) have need for complex tables. Moreover, I’ve learnt that > atm. Asciidoc is not supported input format for creating presentations > with Pandoc… While Pandoc

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Alan BRASLAU
On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 12:25:39 +0200 Saša Janiška wrote: > > then start making your own ... such styles are rather simple and not > > much coding in the document source is needed .. just develop your > > own look and feel after a while > > It’s clear you’re not into

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Saša Janiška
Hans Hagen writes: > actually, some styles use layers and js to step through them .. very > efficient and minimal javascript But that’s more like helpers, right? Still, wonder how portable is that in different PDF viewers? Sincerely, Gour -- In this endeavor there is no loss

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/16/2016 12:25 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: Hans Hagen writes: just look at the presentation styles in the distribuition. Many of them you can just process to get an example Will do. then start making your own ... such styles are rather simple and not much coding in the

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Saša Janiška
Russell Urquhart writes: > I had first started looking at Markdown, but then came to Asciidoc, > as, imo, Asciidoc is a superset of Markdown. In my previous job, and > some in my current job, there is a need to have tables that have cells > that go across multiple rows

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-16 Thread Saša Janiška
Hans Hagen writes: > just look at the presentation styles in the distribuition. Many of > them you can just process to get an example Will do. > then start making your own ... such styles are rather simple and not > much coding in the document source is needed .. just develop

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-15 Thread Mica Semrick
Sorry! I often transpose numbers. Thanks for the correction. -m On October 13, 2016 2:20:13 PM PDT, Pablo Rodriguez wrote: >On 10/13/2016 10:57 PM, Mica Semrick wrote: >> From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on >> asciidoc. See issue 1465 in the pandoc

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-15 Thread Russell Urquhart
Hi, On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 07:30:51PM +0200, Saša Janiška wrote: > Russell Urquhart writes: > > > About a year ago i really got into Asciidoc, and use it at my work for > > technical writing. > > What are your output formats? For my work, i output to html and pdf.

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/14/2016 7:50 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: Hans Hagen writes: Before we started with context we uses ascii based markup (i still have printouts of the code used for pagination, figure placement, tocs around somewhere) ... That’s very interesting… but as the input becomes

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-14 Thread Saša Janiška
Hans Hagen writes: > Before we started with context we uses ascii based markup (i still > have printouts of the code used for pagination, figure placement, tocs > around somewhere) ... That’s very interesting… > but as the input becomes more complex it makes no sense any more to

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-14 Thread Saša Janiška
Russell Urquhart writes: > About a year ago i really got into Asciidoc, and use it at my work for > technical writing. What are your output formats? > For me, i had some Context files, that had, for example, footnotes, > within footnotes, within footnots. This is

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 10/14/2016 12:05 AM, Saša Janiška wrote: Pablo Rodriguez writes: What you can achieve is: AsciiDoc -> HTML -> PDF generated by ConTeXt If the conversion to HTML is fine, you even avoid the conversion to ConTeXt input format (and you might be very close to parse AsciiDoc

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Russell Urquhart
Hi Gour, About a year ago i really got into Asciidoc, and use it at my work for technical writing. I was aware of and was using Context for the layout/formatting that it provides. I have been using that on and off for about 7 years. I came upon Pandoc about a couple of years ago for

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Saša Janiška
Pablo Rodriguez writes: > What you can achieve is: > > AsciiDoc -> HTML -> PDF generated by ConTeXt > > If the conversion to HTML is fine, you even avoid the conversion to > ConTeXt input format (and you might be very close to parse AsciiDoc > sources with ConTeXt). Hmm…that’s

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Saša Janiška
Pablo Rodriguez writes: > this feature makes ConTeXt much superior than LaTeX, but not all TeX > users are aware of this jewel. :-) > Sure it can handle it, but I wonder whether this would make sense. (I > mean, does DocBook handle slides?) That’s valid point…I was also thinking

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 10/13/2016 11:12 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: > Mica Semrick writes: > >> From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on >> asciidoc. See issue 1465 in the pandoc repo. > > That issue (#1456) is in regard to providing AsciiDoc as Pandoc’s > *input*

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 10/13/2016 10:57 PM, Mica Semrick wrote: > From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on > asciidoc. See issue 1465 in the pandoc repo. Sorry, I didn’t know that AsciiDoc wasn’t supported by pandoc as input format. But it isn’t relevant where the HTML cocde comes from to

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Saša Janiška
Mica Semrick writes: > From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on > asciidoc. See issue 1465 in the pandoc repo. That issue (#1456) is in regard to providing AsciiDoc as Pandoc’s *input* format, but my proposed toolchin is the following: AsciiDoc

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 10/13/2016 10:40 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: > Pablo Rodriguez writes: > > Hello Pablo, > >> since ConTeXt can handle XML natively, how about converting AsciiDoc to >> an XML presentation and then compiling the XML file with ConTeXt? > > I must admit I was not aware of that. Hi

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Mica Semrick
>From the pandoc github issues page, looks like they're working on asciidoc. >See issue 1465 in the pandoc repo. -m On October 13, 2016 3:35:14 AM PDT, "Saša Janiška" wrote: >Hello, > >I plan to adopt AsciiDoc(tor) as general markup for my writing (web >content, blog posts,

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Saša Janiška
Pablo Rodriguez writes: Hello Pablo, > since ConTeXt can handle XML natively, how about converting AsciiDoc to > an XML presentation and then compiling the XML file with ConTeXt? I must admit I was not aware of that. AsciiDoc can convert to e.g. DocBook(5), but I wonder if/how

Re: [NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Pablo Rodriguez
On 10/13/2016 12:35 PM, Saša Janiška wrote: > Hello, > > I plan to adopt AsciiDoc(tor) as general markup for my writing (web > content, blog posts, study notes etc.) and I’d prefer to use ConTeXt for > my & wife’s presentations over something like reveal.js, so wonder if > anyone has some

[NTG-context] Asciidoc --> ConTeXt for presentations

2016-10-13 Thread Saša Janiška
Hello, I plan to adopt AsciiDoc(tor) as general markup for my writing (web content, blog posts, study notes etc.) and I’d prefer to use ConTeXt for my & wife’s presentations over something like reveal.js, so wonder if anyone has some experienec with the AsciiDoc --> ConTeXt (converted by Pandoc)