On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 12:39:30 -0700, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Idris Samawi Hamid wrote: >> Hi gang, >> >> I just learned that OOo 2.04 has a LaTeX export (downloading now). Any >> of >> you bright programmers up to writing a ConTeXt export (or porting the >> LaTeX filters to ConTeXt)? >> >> I'm quite serious: if anyone is interested I'll write (or help write) a >> grant proposal for it (I've already had some TeX-related proposals >> funded >> so...). >> >> Please write me if you are interested in a grant, or else we can just >> discuss it on dev-context@ntg.nl and get it done another way! >> > long ago for a project i played a bit with open office output (xml); the > best way do deal with it is to convert the xml into a proper document > structure instead of an office structure > > there are a few weird things in oo's xml but when one uses proper > styles and limits the user's options to the sensible ones oo can even be > a nice editor for docs that are typeset by tex while previewing in oo > (whil eediting it is not needed to see the final output) I think it's a good idea to pursue... > > so one can think of: proper xml document definition, make oo stylesheet > for this, use oo for editing, convert oo xml to xml doc def, use tex for > typesetting > > since i have no project that needs it i cannot spend time on it now But I certainly need it ;-) so the idea of a grant etc. so you (or someone) can afford to work on it sounds good. Of course we have other stuff to do right now but for the future I think this is more than worthwhile... Best Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
