From: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl>
To: "Juan Manuel Macías" <maciaschain@posteo.net>
Cc: Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>, orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org to ConTeXt exporter?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2020 21:03:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zh1xya3i.fsf@mbork.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o8idoljk.fsf@posteo.net>
On 2020-12-28, at 19:03, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:
> Hello, Diego,
>
> Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> writes:
>
>> I have never used ConTeXt, but from what I've seen, despite its many
>> differences, a lot is still similar to TeX/LaTeX (e.g. math). Given
>> this, I think it might be easier to create a new derived exporter from
>> ox-latex, and override the parts that differ, instead of creating a
>> new one completely from scratch.
>
> You are right, maybe it is better to start with ox-latex, since LaTeX
> and ConTeXt are related.
I beg to differ. The relation between LaTeX and ConTeXt is that they
both come from plain TeX, but both came a long way, and there are
significant differences between the two. Personally, I'd rather start
that exporter from scratch. I wrote my exporter a few years ago, it's
not that difficult.
Here's the thing. Some time ago, I have dedicated about 20 minutes per
day (sometimes less, sometimes more, but the average over the past 6
years is about 17 minutes now) to what I call "creative writing" -
mainly the book I was working on for the past 5 years with two more
people (and that book is now complete) and my blog. I will try to use
some of that time to start that tutorial, and maybe I will then publish
it on my blog or somewhere. (I also want to get back to the book on
Elisp I started a long time ago, but that can wait a few more weeks.)
But here's the thing: I'll need help. I know LaTeX very well - I've
been using plain TeX for about 25 years now and LaTeX for about 20
years, including writing quite a few packages and classes - but I don't
know ConTeXt that well. (I did use it a bit, but not very extensively.)
Where could we start working on it? I suppose GitHub/GitLab is out of
question, so?
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-28 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-28 13:38 Org to ConTeXt exporter? Juan Manuel Macías
2020-12-28 15:04 ` Marcin Borkowski
2020-12-28 15:38 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2020-12-28 16:09 ` Jonathan McHugh
2020-12-28 17:54 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2020-12-28 19:06 ` Jonathan McHugh
2020-12-29 21:51 ` Jonathan McHugh
2021-01-04 9:41 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-12-28 16:23 ` Diego Zamboni
2020-12-28 18:03 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2020-12-28 19:23 ` Diego Zamboni
2020-12-28 20:03 ` Marcin Borkowski [this message]
2020-12-29 16:05 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-01-08 2:37 ` Jason Ross
2021-01-09 17:42 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-01-13 1:16 ` Jason Ross
2021-01-08 3:52 ` Jason Ross
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