Mentioned on their wiki at: https://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportExport
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 8:55 AM, William Adams <will.ad...@frycomm.com> wrote: > Is it not an option to use LyX, and then pandoc to convert to ConTeXt? > > http://pandoc.org/ > > On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Roger Mason <rma...@mun.ca> wrote: > >> Hello Jonas, >> >> Jonas Baggett <jonas...@gmail.com> writes: >> >> > Thank you for the suggestion. I was first thinking about incrementally >> > creating a custom format that evolves as features are implemented. And >> > for translating the custom format into a backend format, I was >> > thinking of creating files with translations rules for each backend so >> > that anyone can add support for a new backend or update an existing >> > backend to add more feature or to make it compatible with a newer >> > version of the backend, without needing to modify the editor code. A >> > translation rule is e.g. start_section[title=<the_title>, >> > back_ground_color=<the_color>] => @startsection(title -> >> > {<the_title>}, bg_color -> {<the_color>}) which will convert a start >> > section command of the document format into the same command for a >> > backend format. >> >> Skribilo uses an abstract syntax internally and the different output >> engines process that into the target language. In essence each engine >> is the collection of rules appropriate to that target. >> >> > At first glance that way seems to be the easiest way for me, but >> > Skribilo looks interesting as a fallback option, although I find its >> > syntax to be weird, if I find out that the idea with translation rules >> > isn't working as expected. >> >> There are two input syntaxes, a simple one a bit like Emacs' outline >> mode and the more Scheme-like syntax. The former has limitations >> documented on the Skribilo web-site, the latter is far more complete. I >> an guessing it is the Scheme-like syntax that you find weird. I have >> played around a a little this week on using Wisp >> (http://www.draketo.de/proj/wisp/) and Readable >> (http://readable.sourceforge.net/) to write Skribilo in a less >> parenthesis rich style. Although not able to complete the work owing to >> time constraints, it looks acheivavble. >> >> Cheers, >> Roger >> >> Off topic >> ======== >> >> My goal would be to have an output ConTeXt (or Lout) document, with >> fallback to LaTeX or XML if a publisher insists. If this could be >> combined with Emacs org-mode to document, store and run (or compile-run) >> source code, then a very complete and versatile system for reproducible >> reasearch could be constructed. >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________ >> _______________________ >> 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/list >> info/ntg-context >> webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net >> archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net >> ____________________________________________________________ >> _______________________ >> > >
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