From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: Experimental media-wiki export Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 13:45:06 +0530 Message-ID: <817h9b5je4.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4DE000FC.8070906@mozilla.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54637) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQEiV-0002l0-R6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 04:17:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQEi0-0005on-Vi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 04:17:51 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f41.google.com ([209.85.210.41]:53266) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QQEi0-0005oj-Nn for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 28 May 2011 04:17:20 -0400 Received: by pzk4 with SMTP id 4so1294060pzk.0 for ; Sat, 28 May 2011 01:17:20 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4DE000FC.8070906@mozilla.com> (David Mason's message of "Fri, 27 May 2011 15:52:28 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: David Mason Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org David Mason writes: > I've found myself using the media-wiki export code in EXPERIMENTAL quite > a bit - but it seems to have broken in the most recent builds. May be this will help. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2011-04/msg00316.html > I'm curious what the status of that is - are there any plans to move it > into the main codebase? Is anyone even maintaining it? You have the option of exporting it to html or odt and have it converted to mediawiki. Open/Libre Office seems to be one uber converter and you can use it to export to mediawiki (by hand) or through commandline (use unoconv). If you are unhappy with unoconv, you can write some basic macros and have a made-to-order commandline that exports html/odt to mediawiki. I am attaching test org file and the corresponding mediawiki export (generated via the html backend). I am not sure how good the mediawiki export is. > I find it is the best mediawiki export, especially for tables. Btw, the attached test file has tables, both simple and complex. On a related note, in all honesty, 1. I think that Org shouldn't support all backends in the world as part of it's core. The previous statement equally applies to the org-odt backend. It would suffice if Org provides a generic exporter and people unhappy with existing converters or who have plenty of time in hand (like me) can author standalone modules that is in tune with ORg way of things and distribute it via GNU's ELPA. 2. I think Org should provide a way (out of the box) to post-process an exported file to one of the "other" formats using an external converter. LibreOffice, if not now, atleast in distant future would become the One True Converter to rule the world. Something like M-x org-export-as-other .... Jambunathan K. <#part type="text/plain" filename="~/src/org-jambu/contrib/odt/files/test.org" disposition=attachment description=test.org> <#/part> <#part type="text/plain" filename="~/src/org-jambu/contrib/odt/files/test.txt" disposition=inline description=test.mediawiki> <#/part> --