From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bastien Subject: Re: Google Summer of Code -- 3 Org projects for our first participation! Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:57:48 +0200 Message-ID: <87mx5zrklf.fsf@altern.org> References: <8762cpad2q.fsf@gnu.org> <4F9653BD.7030201@wilkesley.net> <87obqh8s6m.fsf@googlemail.com> <4F98A7F0.6080405@neilsmithline.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNJZL-0002qK-Nr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:56:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNJZF-00048Y-HD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:56:51 -0400 Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:40947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SNJZF-00048P-7Q for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:56:45 -0400 Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so146442wgb.30 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:56:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F98A7F0.6080405@neilsmithline.com> (Neil Smithline's message of "Wed, 25 Apr 2012 21:42:08 -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: Neil Smithline Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Neil, Neil Smithline writes: > I've run into this problem dealing with the weak presentation of Org Mode > files on Github. Github uses the Ruby gem org-ruby > (https://github.com/bdewey/org-ruby) to convert .org files to HTML. I've > added a feature or two to org-ruby but really feel that trying to > completely re-implement Org Mode in a Ruby gem is a losing battle. What will help org-ruby (and github's support of org files) is to stabilize the syntax of .org files as much as possible. We are currently working in this direction. org-ruby's main job is to convert .org files into HTML or textile files. > If I understand the project correctly, a working iOrg could be used to > support Github's rendering of .org files. Github could just drop the use of > org-ruby and use iOrg as an external converter for formatting .org files. As I understand it, iOrg will convert .org files to HTML using the internal Org's HTML exporter. I don't see how github could use such a setup to produce HTML files from Org (unless github runs an Emacs batch query for exporting HTML... which seems very unlikely - and wrong by design anyway. Let's see how iOrg evolves but let's stick to the bugpile for now. If the list can specifically help about org-ruby issues, let's help! All best, > PS: And the answer is "Yes. I am aware that vehemently suggesting a project > is equivalent to offering to help with it." :-D Good :) -- Bastien