On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 18:54:49 -0500
Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote:
Plus, most of my writer friends work in word processors
which means that it is far easier to exchange manuscripts for proofing
feedback is via the (ugh) .doc file.
I have been able to teach some of my
Hi Bill,
I will jump in here after I have been following this thread.
There is a more direct method that you can use though at first it requires some
work.
Then again, it might not work if the formatting used is quite complex.
A long while ago I had to join several Word documents to form a
Am 2013-01-31 um 00:54 schrieb Bill Meahan:
Scribus (~InDesign) has an XML-based format, too but no direct conversion to
M$-word. Doesn't look all that bad to me but I'm hardly an XML expert.
Some 10 years ago I was looking for a XML based layout format to use as
exchange standard for
On 01/31/2013 04:19 AM, Keith J. Schultz wrote:
Hi Bill,
I will jump in here after I have been following this thread.
Saved the documents as standard text file. In LaTeX I set up the environments
as I
needed then.
This work flow work quite well.
regards
Keith.
Yeah, if all else
I scoured the wiki and mailing-list without finding a definite answer.
The most recent discussion I can find is from 2006 and at that time it
was possible but nobody had yet developed the appropriate template,
XSLT style-sheet, module or whatever to actually do it.
For a number of reasons
Hi Bill,
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:31:51 -0700, Bill Meahan
subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote:
I scoured the wiki and mailing-list without finding a definite answer.
The most recent discussion I can find is from 2006 and at that time it
was possible but nobody had yet developed the
On 01/30/2013 02:45 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Have you considered using markdown/pandoc? You can either
I appreciate the suggestion but it does not meet my needs.
I currently use GNU Emacs and YASnippet. All my work-to-date is already
in raw context which YASnippet and
On 30/01/13 20:45, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
Hi Bill,
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:31:51 -0700, Bill Meahan
subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote:
I scoured the wiki and mailing-list without finding a definite answer.
The most recent discussion I can find is from 2006 and at
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote:
An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from LO-W
which could then be be tweaked if necessary.
Another option is to uncompress the odt file (IIUC, it is just a zip), and
process it directly in ConTeXt
Am 30.01.2013 um 22:12 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote:
An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from LO-W which
could then be be tweaked if necessary.
Another option is to uncompress the odt file (IIUC, it is just a
On 01/30/2013 10:12 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013, Bill Meahan wrote:
An XSLT stylesheet would allow direct export of a document from
LO-W which could then be be tweaked if necessary.
Another option is to uncompress the odt file (IIUC, it is just a
zip), and process it
On 01/30/2013 04:21 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
ConTeXt is able to read from zip files.
Hans posted a simple example to process odt files a few years ago.
Wolfgang
Hmm. Didn't show up when I used the list search. Perhaps I simply missed
it, I'll look again. Thanks.
--
Bill Meahan
On 01/30/2013 05:13 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
But in general odt is too much of a mess for my limited skills. And
although Bill does not like it in the least I am not aware of a
better cross-format solution than markdown/pandoc whenever I am forced
to deal with M$-Word
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