There is a lua markdown converter: http://github.com/jgm/lunamark It can output html and latex, I don't think it would be hard to make it output context and integrate it in some way.
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:31:06AM +0000, John Haltiwanger wrote: > This was exactly what I was wondering last night: > > How hard would it be to just write the converter into LuaTeX? Does > LuaTeX's position as a moving target affect this at all? > > As you suggest Phillip, it might not be so difficult. It certainly > sounds like a worthwhile project. Seeming as how there is an obvious > spread of interest, perhaps we can start working on something > collaboratively. > > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Philipp Gesang > <pges...@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote: > > On 2010-08-14 <07:19:17>, Gour D. wrote: > >> Finally, for the high-quality output, we plan to convert to ConTeXt > >> (via pandoc since there is no ConTeXt writer for sphinx/docutils) for > >> high-quality PDF output (if rst2pdf won't be satisfying or if we would > >> like to provide paper putput. > > > > Hi Gour, Hraban, John, and the list, > > > > did you consider directly processing reST or similar markdown with > > context using lua? Certainly it has advantages to have a converter output > > context (backslash style) code and being able to finalize it. But > > implementing some .rst processing directly in context shouldn't be that > > hard (and with luatex you could handle the html output as well). > > > > Has somebody already made some steps in that way? (I'm thinking about > > doing so for quite some time now but then, it's not that pressing > > either.) > > > > Philipp > > > > > >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > >> If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > >> the Wiki! > >> > >> maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > >> http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > >> webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > >> archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > >> wiki : http://contextgarden.net > >> ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > -- > > () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail > > /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to > > the Wiki! > > > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
