On Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:40:44 +0100 Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote:
> If I was you, I would use AsciiDoc, convert it to DocBook and process > the XML. (There is some simple proof-of-concept docbook processing > already written.) Uff, even when considering to just use AsciiDoc, I was always trying to stay away from DocBook. :-) Do you personally use that? > Markdown is super ambiguous, with lots of different flavours, and > often resorting to HTML for the lack of more expressive syntax. I'm aware of that and that was the reason why in the past I was exploring reST/AsciiDoc, but then I thƣnk that maybe I can use markdown just for simpler/shorter content when publishing on web sites via static-site-generator and for the rest (study notes, slide presentations, alreger texts and/or books) to simply write directly in ConTeXt markup? > There is relatively little syntax you need to learn to achive nearly > anything, This is something what I like - simplicity is always a virtue. > I use TikZ when I need some ready-made stuff with possibly some fancy > shading patterns (or when I would pass the images to LaTeX users). In > those cases you might be able to achive the same in a lot less lines > of code, but you usually constantly need the user manual at hand, and > doing something low level is more tricky. ConTeXt support might be > occasionally broken. Thank you. It seems that metaPost/Fun is a way to go... Sincerely, Gour -- As a lamp in a windless place does not waver, so the transcendentalist, whose mind is controlled, remains always steady in his meditation on the transcendent self. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
