Introduction Why? What are the problems? \hskip 1em\relax Outer level and inner level markup \hskip 2em\relax Prelude matter \hskip 1em\relax MAPS submission \hskip 1em\relax Canonical BLUe scripts \hskip 1em\relax And what about the active parts? The challenge Conversion approaches \hskip 1em\relax Method {\fam \@ne \teni a\aftergroup : } demarkup first \hskip 1em\relax Method {\fam \@ne \teni b1}: maps format \hskip 1em\relax Method {\fam \@ne \teni b2}: BLUe as user interface \hskip 2em\relax ex:Representative definitions \hskip 1em\relax Method {\fam \@ne \teni c1}: hand replacement \hskip 1em\relax Method {\fam \@ne \teni c2}: converter scripts \hskip 1em\relax Method {\fam \@ne \teni c3}: conversion via expansion \hskip 1em\relax Method {\fam \@ne \teni x\aftergroup : } conversion via modified T\hbox {\kern -.1667em\lower .424ex\hbox {E}\kern -.125emX} Conversion via expansion \hskip 1em\relax Abstract \hskip 1em\relax Pictures \hskip 1em\relax Beginscript and endscript \hskip 1em\relax Headings \hskip 1em\relax Items \hskip 1em\relax Footnotes \hskip 1em\relax Verbatim tags \hskip 1em\relax Verbatim texts \hskip 1em\relax Comments \hskip 1em\relax Explicit skips \hskip 1em\relax Newcounts and such like \hskip 1em\relax Facts from real life \hskip 1em\relax Conversion table \hskip 1em\relax Toy test \hskip 1em\relax User guidance: aidsconvertor.tex \hskip 1em\relax Test result Convertor Program \hskip 1em\relax Design \hskip 1em\relax Coding \hskip 1em\relax Availability \hskip 1em\relax Robustness bluemaps.tex accompanying macros How to convert? Columbus' egg Acknowledgements Conclusion Appendix: Canonical BLUe Tags