Re: Org to ConTeXt exporter?

[Jonathan McHugh <indieterminacy@libre.brussels>]

Hello \Context folks,

I have wondered about the interoperability between Context and Latex.

As somebody who (previously) invested a lot of time into Latex, my migration to
Context (due to its emphasis on Lua) grew problematic once other commitments
grew.

The lack of Context support in Org-Mode has made me consider reverting
back to Latex.

However, I have  wondered if a possible shortcut is to compile a list of
the semantic differences between the two and attack it from there.

For example, the Context stub, 'From Latex to Context', gives some of the
distinctions:
https://wiki.contextgarden.net/From_LaTeX_to_ConTeXt

... which then cites a 45 page pdf (which may (possibly) be a little out
of date, having been written in 2003):
http://www.berenddeboer.net/tex/LaTeX2ConTeXt.pdf

Perhaps looking at Org-Modes Latex exporter and determining the Context
equivalent would help? After all, they should be satisfing equivalent requirements.

Even better, if a modern list of equivalents were in a locality suitable
for non Org-Mode users then it may become easier for users from either
communities to feed off eachothers work a little easier.

If I had a lot of time it would be wonderful to develop parsing
expression grammars to capture it all, irrespective of direction ... mmm time....

Best wishes,


Jonathan

Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> writes:

> Hello, Marcin,
>
> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Creating an exporter from scratch is probably easier than you think.
>> A few years ago I planned a tutorial about this, but another job
>> happened, then covid happened etc.  Now that I finished some big project
>> taking me a lot of time, I might be tempted to revisit that.  Would
>> there be demand for a DYI Org-exporter-from-scratch tutorial?
>
> Thank you for your answer. Actually a tutorial on how to create an
> exporter from scratch (I think) would be really interesting. Some time
> ago I was tempted to start writing an exporter for ConTeXt, studying the
> code of the other exporters, but for time and work reasons I left the
> project abandoned.
>
> If you finally write that tutorial, I could also translate it into
> Spanish to spread it out among Spanish-speaking Org users.
>
> Regards,
>
> Juan Manuel 
>
>> Best,


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Jonathan McHugh
indieterminacy@libre.brussels