Hi,
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 07:30:51PM +0200, Saša Janiška wrote: > Russell Urquhart <russurquha...@verizon.net> 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. > > > For me, i had some Context files, that had, for example, footnotes, > > within footnotes, within footnots. This is very doable in > > Context. Asciidoc, currently, does not support this multiple levels of > > footnotes, so, as i expected, converting Context -> Asciidoc, was not > > able to do this. > > Interesting…I also have need for footnotes within footnotes and hit that > barrier with rst/markdown or some other non-AsciiDoc format > recently. :-) > This is an example, imo, of the source format of your markup not havng a richness of your target format. > > My suggestions would be, as you are going from asciidoc to Context, > > make sure that you are happy with what you can do in asciidoc. Context > > should be able to readily handle a conversion from Pandoc. > > Well, considering that ConTeXt can do much more than AsciiDoc, maybe for > regualr web content (blog posts, shorter articles etc.) I could simply > use Markdown without even going to AsciiDoc which is interesting option > only in case of being able to server as single-source format. 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 and/or columns. Asciidoc supports this. (Mainly because DocBook support CALS tables.) Because of this, and all the other functionality, i manily use Asciidoc. With that said, when i want or need to have a fine typeset type book/manual, something that might requrie extensive footnotes, indexes, specialized page layouts, auto cross references, etc. AND i could not get that from Asciidoc, then i would create my source in either Context, Docbook, or LaTex. (I haven't used LaTex very much myself, but i know people who swear by it.) At my previous job, we did LARGE technical manuals, and we used a customized version of DocBook. When i was editing those books, we used Xmetal to edit the source XML. I really didn't care for that, so i used Vim with various xml plugins, to traverse and edit the xml. Now, as i use asciidoc, i still use Vim with syntax highlighting. I also use Asciidco FX as an Asciidoc previewer. From there i can also generate html and pdf. When i need more finely formatted pdf's (with cover pages, front matter, back matter, multiple chapters, etc.) then i use Asciidoc-fo pdf. I would also check out Pandoc to go to and from various output format! Hope that helps! Russ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
