On 2020-12-28, at 19:03, Juan Manuel Macías <maciasch...@posteo.net> wrote:
> Hello, Diego, > > Diego Zamboni <di...@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
