From: "Victor \"Zverok\" Shepelev" Date: 2007-09-17T15:37:39+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] uniforma-0.0.1 - converter for text formats From: Jeff Barczewski [mailto:jeff.barczewski@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:53 PM > >On 9/13/07, Victor Zverok Shepelev wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> >> I'm pleased to announce 0.0.1 (aka "early adopters only" release) of my >> Uniforma library. >> >> It's here: http://rubyforge.org/projects/uniforma/ >> > > > >> 3. For my journalism, I need MS Word output (I have no fun to do text >> editing in MS Word, but ability to generate it is a must). Now I use >> "Textile=>(RedCloth)=>HTML=>`winword mytext.html`" scheme, which have >> several flaws. I want be able to easy define MS Word generator (using >> win32ole, of course, no hand-made heroism). > > > > >To generate msword docs - it might be easier (and more portable) to simply >write out the new xml form of word rather than using win32ole. I believe it >would still have all the same capabilities but just represented in xml >format. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML > >And of course don't forget to add open office xml to the list. > 1. My primary goal is to create "right tool" for others to define their own parsers and generator 2. About complex formats, I'm planning to be pragmatic: win32ole-based solution is enough for most cases. If somebody feels it's not enough, he/she can do the "right" generator him/her-self. >You might also take a look at deplate for some inspiration, it generates >latex, html, and docbook and can read from a few formats. Yeah, thanks. >If you set up a mailing list, let me know as I would like to follow the >project since this could be very useful as I need to be able to generate >many formats. > OK, I'l notify you in the case. I think, it will be soon. V.