Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Meahan
On 02/09/2013 06:44 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Sooner or later, you'll reach the limit of markdown. In those situations, I use gpp to preprocess the file. See http://randomdeterminism.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/how-i-stopped-worring-and-started-using-markdown-like-tex/ Aditya I saw that

Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:51:46 -0700, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: What made the difference is a little editor, written entirely in Python so it is cross-platform, called ReText. It is less powerful than Emacs but has the advantage of almost-real-time preview of what the

Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-10 Thread Bill Meahan
On 02/10/2013 12:07 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote: I never heard of retext before, so I spent some time with it... thanks for the reference! Unicode support seems solid, even bidi (via Qt). OTOH it's waaay too geeky for the average citizen to install -- too many steps

Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-10 Thread Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد
On Sun, 10 Feb 2013 11:47:22 -0700, Bill Meahan subscribed_li...@meahan.net wrote: Glad you found something that works well. Retext seems to have better support than MarkdownPad for some pandoc markdown extensions like footnotes: Here is a footnote

[NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-09 Thread Bill Meahan
Aditya and Idris were sufficiently strong in their recommendation to use Markdown+pandoc for multi-format document production (including ConTeXt) I decided to take another look. Facepalm! I suddenly realized the custom formatting I thought I would lose is simply a matter of creating CSS and

Re: [NTG-context] Facepalm (was Typesetting LibreOffice (ODT) documents with ConTeXt)

2013-02-09 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Sat, 9 Feb 2013, Bill Meahan wrote: Aditya and Idris were sufficiently strong in their recommendation to use Markdown+pandoc for multi-format document production (including ConTeXt) I decided to take another look. Sooner or later, you'll reach the limit of markdown. In those situations,