From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Otterson Subject: fancier and less fancy export Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 09:43:24 -0700 Message-ID: <445F752C.20909@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd8pZ-0006QM-UU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 12:43:33 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd8pZ-0006Q9-79 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 12:43:33 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fd8pZ-0006Q6-2w for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 12:43:33 -0400 Received: from [66.111.4.25] (helo=out1.smtp.messagingengine.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fd8qQ-00020r-Pi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 12:44:27 -0400 Received: from frontend3.internal (frontend3.internal [10.202.2.152]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21523D5B10E for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:43:30 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.6] (h-72-244-203-65.sttnwaho.dynamic.covad.net [72.244.203.65]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41BF75636 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:43:30 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org My biggest use of org-mode export is spitting out simple ASCII lists that I paste into emails. Even so, I have picky export enhancement requests: 1.) Add org-export-visible-as-ascii: org-export-copy-visible creates a new org file containing the visible text. The problem for me is that it's still an org-file, with all the leading *'s, linking text and so on. So, I'd like to clean it up by running org-export-as-ascii over the export-visible file but - this is an extra step - when I try to do this, I get the error message: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil 2.) Export with simple leading characters instead of section numbers. Maybe there's already a way to do this, but I'd like to see an option for exporting headlines with leading '*' ,'o', '-'' and so on, instead of with long section numbers like 3.4.2.1. For html export, this could be just the standard itemized list characters; for ascii, it could be something similar. This could be done with a customization variable, a prefix, or very long commands like org-export-visible-as-ascii-simple... Also, a general question: There's been discussion of adapting muse-mode so that org-mode can eventually make use of its many export capabilities. At that same time, we've got very interesting xoxo export capability and the nice new code written by David O'Toole. This is great stuff but to a new user, these multiple and somewhat overlapping choices are bound to be confusing. Will all this good code eventually get merged into a unified org-mode exporting system? Thanks, Scott