Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-08-14 um 11:23 schrieb Philipp Gesang: did you consider directly processing reST or similar markdown with context using lua? Certainly it has advantages to have a converter output context (backslash style) code and being able to finalize it. But implementing some .rst processing direc

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-08-14 <11:52:12>, Hans Hagen wrote: > On 14-8-2010 11:23, Philipp Gesang wrote: > > >Has somebody already made some steps in that way? (I'm thinking about > >doing so for quite some time now but then, it's not that pressing > >either.) > > is there a precise spec? You mean something lik

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
On 14-8-2010 11:23, Philipp Gesang wrote: Has somebody already made some steps in that way? (I'm thinking about doing so for quite some time now but then, it's not that pressing either.) is there a precise spec? (I'm still looking for a few examples that I can use at the ctx conference.)

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Khaled Hosny
There is a lua markdown converter: http://github.com/jgm/lunamark It can output html and latex, I don't think it would be hard to make it output context and integrate it in some way. On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:31:06AM +, John Haltiwanger wrote: > This was exactly what I was wondering last nigh

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread John Haltiwanger
This was exactly what I was wondering last night: How hard would it be to just write the converter into LuaTeX? Does LuaTeX's position as a moving target affect this at all? As you suggest Phillip, it might not be so difficult. It certainly sounds like a worthwhile project. Seeming as how there i

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-14 Thread Philipp Gesang
On 2010-08-14 <07:19:17>, Gour D. wrote: > Finally, for the high-quality output, we plan to convert to ConTeXt > (via pandoc since there is no ConTeXt writer for sphinx/docutils) for > high-quality PDF output (if rst2pdf won't be satisfying or if we would > like to provide paper putput. Hi Gour, H

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt

2010-08-13 Thread Gour D.
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:35:04 +0200 >> "Henning" == Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: Henning> Sounds interesting. What's your workflow? Do you use a special Henning> editor (WYSIWYM?) for your markup? Writing markdown/reST in Emacs which has nice modes for both markup formats. (There is even pandoc

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt (was: simplefonts or Typecripts)

2010-08-13 Thread John Haltiwanger
This is very similar to a project in which I am planning to engage in the near future. Output to both HTML and PDF utilizing a simple markup seems to be a "killer feature" that at least some of us are looking for. Cross-media publishing, however, is never painless. It's like a Holy Grail. Pandoc m

Re: [NTG-context] other markup to ConTeXt (was: simplefonts or Typecripts)

2010-08-13 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Am 2010-08-13 um 21:11 schrieb Gour D.: For now, it can be enough considering that atm we'll mostly write markdown/reST and convert to ConTeXt via pandoc, but later we'll go into final production... Sounds interesting. What's your workflow? Do you use a special editor (WYSIWYM?) for your mar