Thank you so much, Christopher, for your detailed answer! >===== Original Message From Christopher Creutzig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ===== >Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >> Would it be possible to define an xml format for the journal so that I >> could more easily process both ConTeXt/LaTeX articles as well as the >> docs and rtfs I generally receive? Is this more work than it's worth? >> It's a humanities journal, so little-to-no math.
> If your most pressing problem is the variety of data formats you >receive articles in, then no, xml won't help. You'd still need some way >of transforming the articles to the format of your choice. That being >said, XML may be a very good intermediate step from Word or rtf to >ConTeXt, if only because OpenOffice has pretty advanced import filters >and stores its data in a straightforward xml format that should be easy >to transform, assuming you start with a sufficiently rich set of >predefined formats and somehow get people to either use them (fat >chance, I know) fat chance, perhaps, but maybe...(see below) >or have them be sufficiently different that you can >automatically or at least semi-automatically classify the author's >formatting to your presets. In really simple cases (e.g., pure prose) >you may get away with accepting HTML and converting that. Paul Tremblay's pages seem very useful in this regard: http://getfo.sourceforge.net/context_xml/contents.html Question: Is it possible to design a doc or rtf template that Open Office can convert to a sane, consistent xml format? If the Tremblay approach is rich enough, that would solve a lot of problems! Here is my idea: 1. Give each author a doc/rtf template for formatting their article; 2. Use OpenOffice to convert to xml; 3. Use the Tremblay method (have not tried it yet) to process this in Context. Question: Does the entire journal have to be in programmed in xml or can ConTeXt process xml locally? For example, I may have my own article done in COnTeXt mixed with other articles done in rtf=>xml. Any other advice (and/or pitfalls to watch for) would be appreciated. This sounds very promising! Best Idris ============================ Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
