Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-18 Thread Bruce
Roger Mason rmason at mun.ca writes: Chris, Chris Lott chris at chrislott.org writes: 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-15 Thread Hagmann Jörg
| Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from | there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed | ruby script which covers the most common layout commands | Have you already considered writing `org-context.el'? I can't afford

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Welcome to ConTeXt! I'm a relatively new user so my answers will be brief and partial, but I'm sure others will be able to expand on them. On Tue 13 Dec 2011, Chris Lott wrote: 1) My work is primarily in the humanities and end-user technologies, with small amounts of coding. So mathematics

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Roger Mason
Chris, Chris Lott ch...@chrislott.org writes: 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:14, Chris Lott wrote: 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Hagmann Jörg
On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:14, Chris Lott wrote: 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting them into something they can open with their beloved

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Lott
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Roger Mason rma...@mun.ca wrote: 4) How about X/HTML? this is my lowest level need but, again, it would be nice. One option would be to use markdown with pandoc. [...]  I mostly write in ConTeXt, but if I know I must share with users of word processors

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Lott
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Hagmann Jörg joerg.hagm...@unibas.ch wrote: Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed ruby script which covers the most common layout commands (and I'm

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Hagmann Jörg
On Dec 14, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Chris Lott wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Hagmann Jörg joerg.hagm...@unibas.ch wrote: Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed ruby script

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Dec 14 2011, Hagmann Jörg wrote: Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed ruby script which covers the most common layout commands Have you already considered writing

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 14 décembre à 21:32:46 pmli...@free.fr (Peter Münster) écrit notamment: | On Wed, Dec 14 2011, Hagmann Jörg wrote: | Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from | there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed | ruby script which

[NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-13 Thread Chris Lott
Many years ago I used LaTeX quite a bit for academic work, including a fair amount of Memoir class. Back then ConTeXt was quite new, so I didn't mess with it much. Now I'm back and sick of Word/etc for the documents I need to produce as print/pdf and for interaction with colleagues. What I can't