muse, pandoc and context
Dear list members, Despite using a text editor (emacs) and context almost exclusively, I need a way to communicate with other members of the institute. I'm evaluating two possibilities: 1. Writing in markdown and using pandoc for conversion to either context or something openable by a word processor. 2. Writing in emacs muse and publishing to -- see above. I would like to know the following: - Has anybody done the same and come to a conclusion? Reasons? - Is my impression correct that with muse one has fewer possibilities such as sub/superscripts? I'm aware of the threads in the archive, but would like to have an updated, concise opinion. Slightly off topic, but thanks for your answers, Jörg
Le 02 décembre à 16:02:28 Jörg Hagmann
| Despite using a text editor (emacs) and context almost exclusively, I | need a way to communicate with other members of the institute. I'm | evaluating two possibilities: | 1. Writing in markdown and using pandoc for conversion to either context | or something openable by a word processor. | 2. Writing in emacs muse and publishing to -- see above.
| I would like to know the following: | - Has anybody done the same and come to a conclusion? Reasons? | - Is my impression correct that with muse one has fewer possibilities | such as sub/superscripts?
| I'm aware of the threads in the archive, but would like to have an | updated, concise opinion. Does it mean you are aware of the context publishing style in muse? If so, did you encounter any problem? Otherwise, have a look at: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_and_emacs-muse and (in french): http://jm.bornier.free.fr/muse/muse.html cheers, -- Jean
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
Does it mean you are aware of the context publishing style in muse? If so, did you encounter any problem?
Yes, I'm aware of it and no, no problems so far. But before committing myself to either markdown/pandoc or muse, I would like to have opinions. For example: subscripts would be "CO~2~", superscripts "Ca^2+^" in markdown, what would you write in muse? Inclose it between math tags? Wouldn't be convenient.
and (in french):
Thanks, I didn't know this one. Cheers, Jörg
Le 02 décembre à 17:44:02 Jörg Hagmann
"Jörg" == Jörg Hagmann
writes:
Hello, Jörg> Dear list members, Jörg> Despite using a text editor (emacs) and context almost Jörg> exclusively, I need a way to communicate with other members of the Jörg> institute. I was in the similar boat - using Emacs with muse markup but wanting to have something which is more 'standard'- it's not that everyone is using Emacs (yet) :-) Jörg> I'm evaluating two possibilities: 1. Writing in markdown and using Jörg> pandoc for conversion to either context or something openable by a Jörg> word processor. I tried with markdown and gave it up - it's too limiting for my writing needs. Jörg> I would like to know the following: - Has anybody done the same Jörg> and come to a conclusion? Reasons? - Is my impression correct Jörg> that with muse one has fewer possibilities such as Jörg> sub/superscripts? I've settled on reST which is richer markup (see e.g. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/roles.html#subscript) which is more standard than 'muse' and it enables easy conversion to *.html (e.g. sphinx produces nice output from *.reST), and there is even direct conversion to pdf with rst2pdf. Of course, you can enjoy rst-mode as well. In regard to the ConTeXt side of the equation, I hope that Pandoc will get full parser for reST and then it will be possible to use it produce nice ConTeXt as well (see Pandoc' archive) or we should write and/or ask (I did) for ConTeXt back-end in docutils ;) Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Zagreb, Croatia | GPG key: C6E7162D ----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Jean and Gour, Thanks for the comments. I would prefer muse, but superscripts/subscripts are extremely common in biology, not just for chemical formula, and maybe there are more things missing I didn't come across so far. On the other hand, tables didn't work well in markdown --> pandoc --> context. If there is no way from reST to context, it's no use to me. Conclusion: there seems to be no good solution... Cheers, Jörg Gour wrote:
"Jörg" == Jörg Hagmann
writes: Hello,
Jörg> Dear list members,
Jörg> Despite using a text editor (emacs) and context almost Jörg> exclusively, I need a way to communicate with other members of the Jörg> institute.
I was in the similar boat - using Emacs with muse markup but wanting to have something which is more 'standard'- it's not that everyone is using Emacs (yet) :-)
Jörg> I'm evaluating two possibilities: 1. Writing in markdown and using Jörg> pandoc for conversion to either context or something openable by a Jörg> word processor.
I tried with markdown and gave it up - it's too limiting for my writing needs.
Jörg> I would like to know the following: - Has anybody done the same Jörg> and come to a conclusion? Reasons? - Is my impression correct Jörg> that with muse one has fewer possibilities such as Jörg> sub/superscripts?
I've settled on reST which is richer markup (see e.g. http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/roles.html#subscript) which is more standard than 'muse' and it enables easy conversion to *.html (e.g. sphinx produces nice output from *.reST), and there is even direct conversion to pdf with rst2pdf. Of course, you can enjoy rst-mode as well.
In regard to the ConTeXt side of the equation, I hope that Pandoc will get full parser for reST and then it will be possible to use it produce nice ConTeXt as well (see Pandoc' archive) or we should write and/or ask (I did) for ConTeXt back-end in docutils ;)
Sincerely, Gour
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Gour
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Jean Magnan de Bornier
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Jörg Hagmann