Asp Forum - Re: [ANN] uniforma-0.0.1 - converter for text formats

Victor 'Zverok' Shepelev

9/17/2007 6:38:00 AM

From: Jeff Barczewski [mailto:jeff.barczewski@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2007 6:53 PM
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>On 9/13/07, Victor Zverok Shepelev <vshepelev@imho.com.ua> wrote:
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>> Hi all.
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>> I'm pleased to announce 0.0.1 (aka "early adopters only" release) of my
>> Uniforma library.
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>> It's here: http://rubyforge.org/projects...
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>> 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).
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>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.
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offic...
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>And of course don't forget to add open office xml to the list.
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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.
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OK, I'l notify you in the case. I think, it will be soon.

V.

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Re: [ANN] uniforma-0.0.1 - converter for text formats

Victor 'Zverok' Shepelev

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