From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: [David O'Toole] Fwd: Re: org-publish future ? Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:29:46 +0200 Message-ID: <5a66e8bc561ad58f8ec11eb9d01b2e97@science.uva.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v624) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FnYov-0002Cv-G6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:29:57 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FnYot-0002Cc-SK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:29:57 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FnYot-0002CZ-O9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:29:55 -0400 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: David O'Toole Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Jun 5, 2006, at 23:19, David O'Toole wrote: > > On a related note, Carsten are you reading? Something came up in IRC > discussion, about making it easier to convert org documents to other > formats. Although I am a bit resistant to the idea, especially since > it would take things in a more muse-ish direction, I remember you had > mentioned making a "cleaned up" publishing function that produces an > intermediate format (s-expressions?) that could be transformed into > something else. Are you still thinking about this? My interest in exporting Org-mode to more formats is quite limited. I am not using Org-mode to write books. And if I want to produce a book, moving away from the fantastic toolset for LaTeX available under Emacs to something that limits my possibilities to a subset of LaTeX is a loss, not a gain. Personally, I am not often in a situation where I need to produce many different output formats of a document. The only major application for this is documentation, for example of computer programs produce documentation. There are many systems that can do this, for example POD (developed for the perl documentation), TeXInfo, muse. I don't see why Org-mode needs to be able to do the same. The one thing I would be interested in is indeed to produce one very general format that would allow people to do with it whatever they want. My feeling is that such a format could be based on the current HTML exporter because it does a complete structural analysis of an Org-mode document, and the output could be some kind of semantic-only HTML, or XML, or whatever. I have not taken any steps toward implementing this, and right now I don't see it happening. - Carsten