On 12/24/07, Aditya Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Gour wrote: > > > 5) I read LaTeX in proper ConTeXt pdf, but I'm interested is there some > > helper to convert classical LaTeX book (book class) to ConTeXt? I've two > > books which I'm considering to publish as one (~1000p) in the future, so > > any help in conversion would be nice. > > I do this quite often (ConTeXt -> LaTeX), so I am just writing my thoughts > about this. A general purpose translator from ConTeXt to LaTeX is VERY > difficult, because of the nature of both macro languages. However, it is > relatively simple to convert a subset of one to the other. Currently, I > write most of my papers in ConTeXt. For the final version of the paper, > most journals want LaTeX. I know my style of writing ConTeXt, and can > easily convert 95% percent of it to LaTeX using regular expressions (and > have been thinking of exploring gema in more detail: > http://gema.sourceforge.net/). It is easier to do the rest by hand rather > than writing a script that takes care of all the corner cases. Usually it > takes me around 2 hours to convert a (30-40 page) paper from ConTeXt to > LaTeX. Since this needs to be done only once every six months or so, I > have not spent too much time trying to optimize my approach. I think that > the same will be true for conversion from LaTeX to ConTeXt. However, I > would suggest that you start by writing some ConTeXt documents by hand, > before you automate the conversion. This way, you will know what you want > to achieve from a conversion script.
This is consistent with my experience. I suggest that anyone considering such conversions creating a simple test document with one example of each construct you use. I took Lamport's sample2e.tex, added a figure and a table, and then made a context version which is part of my test suite for new tex installations. -- George N. White III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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