Re: Org to ConTeXt exporter?

[Juan Manuel Macías]

Hello, Marcin,

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> 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.)

As I said, I think a tutorial on writing an Org exporter from scratch
would be very interesting and useful. If, finally, you can find time for
it, I could do a translation to publish it on my blog in Spanish
(https://gnutas.juanmanuelmacias.com/). With my translation of Homer's
Odyssey (work in progress) and other projects, I don't have a lot of free
time, but I can always find a moment.

> 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.)

(In my case) I have not used much ConTeXt. Really, I prefer LaTeX. It's
a personal opinion and a matter of taste, but I find ConTeXt too
"monolithic". One of the main problems it has is (I think) its huge lack
of documentation (compared to LaTeX). I suppose, in part, because his
community is smaller. However, I also think that ConTeXt has interesting
features (grid typesetting, xml integration, etc.), and it would not be
a bad idea to have an alternative to LaTeX in Org. But I don't know if
it would be something feasible in the short term, beyond the concept...

Regards,

Juan Manuel