On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:30:36 -0700, Andrea Valle
After wasting my time with an awful pdf to html converter by Acrobat, I discovered this, you may all know: http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
Looks impressive...
The html conversion is very very good in resulting rendering and also in sources, but after some tweakings I got interested in the xml conversion it allows. The xml format substantially encodes the infos related to page, typically each line is an element. Plus, there are bold and italics marked easily as <b> and <i> I'm still struggling to understand something really operative of XML processing in ConTeXt, so I switched back to Python. I used an incremental sax parser with some replacement. This is today's draft. Original: http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/02%20imp.pdf
Recomposed (no setup at all, only \enableregime[utf]): http://www.semiotiche.it/andrea/membrana/02imp.pdf
Looks VERY impressive... Tell me, how did you set up the cropmarks etc.?
pdf --> pdftoxml --> xml --> python script --> tex --> pdf
I recovered par, bold, em, footnotes, stripping dashes and reassembling the text with footnote references. Not bad as a first step.
Did you also try pdftohtml --> html --> context?
I guess that you xml gurus could probably do much easier and cleaner. So, I mean -just for my very specific needs, I con probably take word sources, convert to pdf and then finally reach ConTeXt as discussed.
Again, very nice stuff! Best wishes Idris -- Professor Idris Samawi Hamid, Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Shi`i Studies Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523 -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/