From: Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Cc: Org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A custom exporter
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:40:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob7jsfzs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130923144828.342f6fd0@aga-netbook>
> I'm toying with an idea of writing my own exporter backend, based on the
> html one. My question is: what should I read to learn how to do this?
> I am aware of http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/ox-overview.html, but
> ox-\(element-\)?docstrings look a bit scary. I thought that reading
> the source code of some existing backend alongside the docstrings might
> be helpful. Am I right? Do you have any suggestions as to which one to
> choose first? How did the authors of existing backends start learning
> how to do that, and do they have any tips for their younger colleague;)?
I'm also very much in the inexperienced camp, but I did find that
reading though a derived exporter (I read the ox-md.el) was useful.
Between that and asking couple of questions on this mailing list, I was
able to write the minimal exporter I needed.
Best,
Josiah
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-23 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-23 12:48 A custom exporter Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-23 15:40 ` Josiah Schwab [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87ob7jsfzs.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=jschwab@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
--cc=mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).