From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Hagmann?= Subject: Re: Footnotes and org-export, revisited Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:04:56 +0100 Message-ID: <49490708.7000406@unibas.ch> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCx1M-0006wT-SC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:05:04 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LCx1L-0006tu-0V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:05:03 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50823 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCx1K-0006t7-Ni for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:05:02 -0500 Received: from smtp1pub.unibas.ch ([131.152.227.80]:18255) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LCx1J-0004re-5l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:05:01 -0500 In-Reply-To: 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: Scot Becker Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > > 5. A final solution (which might also gain other advantages) could be > to begin to facilitate an org-export mode to Pandoc's native > plain-text syntax (an extension of Markdown).[7] Pandoc is a robust > Haskell engine to convert between plain text formats. This would add > a step to org-mode export, but that one step could potentially allow > conversion into the wide range of formats that Pandoc supports > (markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, RTF, DocBook XML, > OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, groff man pages, > and S5 HTML slide shows). Pandoc's syntax model already has a lot in > common with org's. (Both allow LaTeX pass-through, for example). I > don't know if such an export would meet the effort vs. value trade > off, but I suggest it might. > I would welcome an org-export mode to Pandoc's markdown. I'm currently using markdown --> Pandoc for generating pdfs via ConTeXt and editable documents for people using word processors. An org-export mode to markdown would definitely make org the dominating mode for me. Cheers, Jörg -- Prof. Jörg Hagmann-Zanolari MD University of Basel Department of Biomedicine Institute of Biochemistry and Genetics Mattenstrasse 28 CH-4058 Basel Switzerland Phone +41 (0)61 267 3565