Elena Fraboschi wrote:
So, I have been delving into ConTeXt, and I like its syntax: far
"cleaner" than LaTeX. I have also read that there is work in progress
to convert XML to ConTeXt --- my question is, any thoughts, hints,
recommendations about reverse-engineering, that is, from ConTeXt to
XML? If the IUMJ switched production to ConTeXt, we would still want
to preserve on "archival" copy in XML.
(As of now we translate LaTeX to XML using "hermes", but it would
not work with ConTeXt.) If nothing is contemplated in the
area of *from ConTeXt to XML", might this strategy work
There are several things involved in such a translation
- the general structure, this is not that hard and can easily be scripted
- special characters, also easy to script
- special markup, like math, chemistry etc
concerning math, one can use:
- content mathml, which is very structured and configurable
- presentation mathml, which looks like tex, and does not always lead to
nice looking output
- embedded tex, which is ok
as a start one can consider "structure in xml and embedded tex for
formulas", its not that hard to generate web pages from that
i'm considering adding open math support (needed for a project)
ConTeXt -> pdf - pdf to XML ?
the best way is:
xml -> context
xml -> html
xml -> anything
normally magazines are not that complex so oen can use context's direct
mapping; depending on the amount of manipulations, one can
xml -> context reading xml -> pdf
xml -> xslt -> xml -> context reading xml -> pdf
xml -> xslt -> context code -> context reading tex -> pdf
in any case, try to cut the problem into small parts and find solutions
for that; so far i never ran into things/demands that could not be solved
I apologize if the topic is off bounds, and will be grateful if anyone
decides to think outloud on this subject. Best, elena
no problem, if you want to know more you can either use this list (it
could also be a nice thread for those who want to do similar things)
if you don't want to bother the list., you may also mail me directly
pdf is pages while xml is structured markup, so converting pdf into xml
is non trivial,
(btw, the dutch math societies journal is made up in context, i.e. non
standard layout (2/3 columns, grayscales, two non cm font sets,
graphics, pictures etc; the main reason why we now have the columnsets
mechanism-)
Hans
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