Hi, I have been experimenting with using standard text formats like Markdown and Multimarkdown to produce texts for multiple outputs (HTML, RTF, ConTeXt etc)
The basic Markdown syntax is quite limiting; but unfortunately, the more advanced MultiMarkdown syntax does not yet have an XSLT translator available for ConTeXt. It seems that creating one is simple, but that the author needs people with more understanding of ConTeXt syntax than he has. See my request on the MultiMarkdown website http://fletcherpenney.net/Comments_on_Feature_Requests[copied below]. Anyone on the mailing list have enough understanding of XSLT and ConTeXt to help out with creating such a translator? Like the Pandoc converter, it would help to promote ConTeXt towards a broader audience... Thanks Roland Would it be difficult to also create an XSLT file for output to ConTeXt? I know it's not used as much as LaTeX but given the focus on highly customisable ouput, I find it more suitable to writing and publishing needs than LaTeX. Also, the syntax seems more consistent, therefore an XSLT file might not be all that hard to produce? There is some more info on http://tex.loria.fr/formats/context/LaTeX2ConTeXt.pdf and on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt Pandoc (an alternative for converting Markdown documents into various formats) already has ConTeXt support built in but unfortunately it does not allow multimarkdown syntax… – siros 2008-02-24 15:57 An XSLT setup can be made for any TeX derivative, since they all rely on a plain text document format. I am not too familiar with the ConTeX syntax, but I suspect most of it would be quite similar to LaTeX, and that the preamble stuff would be the biggest changes. – Fletcher Penney 2008-02-25 22:55
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