Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-18 Thread Bruce
Roger Mason mun.ca> writes: > > Chris, > > Chris Lott chrislott.org> writes: > > > > > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to > > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting > > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Wor

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-15 Thread Hagmann Jörg
>> | > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from > | > there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a > home-brewed > | > ruby script which covers the most common layout commands >> > | Have you already considered writing `org-context.el'? I can'

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 14 décembre à 21:32:46 pmli...@free.fr (Peter Münster) écrit notamment: | On Wed, Dec 14 2011, Hagmann Jörg wrote: > | > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from | > there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed | > ruby script whi

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Peter Münster
On Wed, Dec 14 2011, Hagmann Jörg wrote: > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and from > there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a home-brewed > ruby script which covers the most common layout commands Have you already considered writing `org-c

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Hagmann Jörg
On Dec 14, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Chris Lott wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Hagmann Jörg wrote: >> >> Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and >> from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a >> home-brewed ruby script which covers the m

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Lott
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Hagmann Jörg wrote: > > Another possibility is to use org-mode in Emacs, export to Latex and >from there to ConTeXt. In my case, the last step is accomplished by a >home-brewed ruby script which covers the most common layout commands >(and I'm mentioning that here

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Chris Lott
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Roger Mason wrote: > >> 4) How about X/HTML? this is my lowest level need but, again, it would be >> nice. > > One option would be to use markdown with pandoc. > [...] >  I mostly write in > ConTeXt, but if I know I must share with users of word processors then >

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Hagmann Jörg
On Dec 14, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:14, Chris Lott wrote: >> >> 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to >> efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting >> them into something they can open with their belov

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 07:14, Chris Lott wrote: > > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... > is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? t

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Roger Mason
Chris, Chris Lott writes: > > 3) PDF is my primary medium of exchange, though I would like to > efficiently exchange docs with colleagues, which might mean getting > them into something they can open with their beloved Microsoft Word... > is there an RTF output for ConTeXt? this isn't super-high

Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-14 Thread Pontus Lurcock
Welcome to ConTeXt! I'm a relatively new user so my answers will be brief and partial, but I'm sure others will be able to expand on them. On Tue 13 Dec 2011, Chris Lott wrote: > 1) My work is primarily in the humanities and end-user technologies, > with small amounts of coding. So mathematics is

[NTG-context] ConTeXt-- does it make sense for my needs?

2011-12-13 Thread Chris Lott
Many years ago I used LaTeX quite a bit for academic work, including a fair amount of Memoir class. Back then ConTeXt was quite new, so I didn't mess with it much. Now I'm back and sick of Word/etc for the documents I need to produce as print/pdf and for interaction with colleagues. What I can't f