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* HOWTO export document to wiki text?
@ 2009-01-17 21:03 Uwe Koloska
  2009-01-18 18:26 ` Matthew Lundin
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 11+ messages in thread
From: Uwe Koloska @ 2009-01-17 21:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Hello,

there is this very nice export to text feature and the superb HTML export. But 
is it possible to convert org to some rich text notation used in wikis?  I 
would like to include some of my documents into a wiki (dokuwiki and 
TWiki/Foswiki).
And if there is no such feature yet, where do I have to start to implement it?

Thank you
Uwe Koloska

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• * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
    2009-01-17 21:03 HOWTO export document to wiki text? Uwe Koloska
  @ 2009-01-18 18:26 ` Matthew Lundin
    2009-01-19  7:42   ` Ian Barton
    2009-01-18 18:27 ` Eric Schulte
    2009-01-19 16:23 ` Christian Egli
    2 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
  From: Matthew Lundin @ 2009-01-18 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Uwe Koloska; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
  
  
  Hi Uwe,
  
  Uwe Koloska <uwe@koloro.de> writes:
  
  > Hello,
  >
  > there is this very nice export to text feature and the superb HTML export. But 
  > is it possible to convert org to some rich text notation used in wikis?  I 
  > would like to include some of my documents into a wiki (dokuwiki and 
  > TWiki/Foswiki).
  > And if there is no such feature yet, where do I have to start to implement it?
  
  This doesn't exactly answer your question, but for a quick and dirty
  wiki conversion, I export an outline (or subtree) to html and then use the
  perl script html2wiki to convert to the appropriate format.
  
  http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/
  
  It would be easy enough, I imagine, to create a script that combines the
  two steps.
  
  Obviously, this would only be a one-way conversion, from org files to
  wiki. Carsten addresses the possibility of a two-way conversion via an
  intermediate list format at the end of his Google text talk, but as far
  as I know, that is still only an idea.
  
  http://orgmode.org/GoogleTech.html
  
  My dream is for wiki software that uses org files as its backend, thus
  enabling community editing of org files via the web. But that, of
  course, is only a dream at this point.
  
  Best,
  Matt
  
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• • * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
      2009-01-18 18:26 ` Matthew Lundin
    @ 2009-01-19  7:42   ` Ian Barton
      2009-01-19 15:03     ` Matthew Lundin
      0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
    From: Ian Barton @ 2009-01-19  7:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
      To: Matthew Lundin; +Cc: emacs-orgmode, Uwe Koloska
    
    > My dream is for wiki software that uses org files as its backend, thus
    > enabling community editing of org files via the web. But that, of
    > course, is only a dream at this point.
    > 
    >
    I use PmWiki (http://www.pmwiki.org) for lots of things. It stores pages 
    in a sort of plain text format. However, it's possible to use your own 
    markup rules, so in principle it could be used with org files.
    
    See http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/CustomMarkup for more details of 
    using custom markup rules.
    
    Ian.
    
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  • • * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
        2009-01-19  7:42   ` Ian Barton
      @ 2009-01-19 15:03     ` Matthew Lundin
        2009-01-19 15:27       ` Sebastian Rose
        2009-01-19 19:30       ` Ian Barton
        0 siblings, 2 replies; 11+ messages in thread
      From: Matthew Lundin @ 2009-01-19 15:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
        To: Ian Barton; +Cc: Matthew Lundin, emacs-orgmode, Uwe Koloska
      
      
      Hi Ian,
      
      Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> writes:
      
      >> My dream is for wiki software that uses org files as its backend, thus
      >> enabling community editing of org files via the web. But that, of
      >> course, is only a dream at this point.
      >>
      >>
      > I use PmWiki (http://www.pmwiki.org) for lots of things. It stores
      > pages in a sort of plain text format. However, it's possible to use
      > your own markup rules, so in principle it could be used with org
      > files.
      
      Yes, I use PmWiki myself and think it's great. However, custom markup
      rules would work only as a partial solution here, since PmWiki stores
      pages (with all diffs) in its own peculiar flat file format that can't
      really be edited directly. (Take a look at the files in your wiki.d
      directory.)
      
      I suppose one could create org markup rules for Pmwiki and then edit the
      pages in org-mode via w3m. There is also a defunct pmwiki-mode for emacs
      that pulls PmWiki pages off a website for editing.
      
      For org-mode/wiki integration, oddmuse might be a good choice, since its
      stores each pages as a very simple plain text file. In fact, a quick
      google search revealed some efforts to create org-mode markup for
      oddmuse a year ago.
      
      - http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Comments_on_Writing_Extensions
      
      - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4032
      
      I'll have to investigate further.
      
      - Matt
      
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    • • * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
          2009-01-19 15:03     ` Matthew Lundin
        @ 2009-01-19 15:27       ` Sebastian Rose
          2009-01-19 19:30       ` Ian Barton
          1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
        From: Sebastian Rose @ 2009-01-19 15:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
          To: Matthew Lundin; +Cc: Matthew Lundin, emacs-orgmode, Uwe Koloska
        
        Wow - PmWiki looks great!
        
        Thanks!
        
        
        Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
        > Hi Ian,
        >
        > Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> writes:
        >
        >>> My dream is for wiki software that uses org files as its backend, thus
        >>> enabling community editing of org files via the web. But that, of
        >>> course, is only a dream at this point.
        >>>
        >>>
        >> I use PmWiki (http://www.pmwiki.org) for lots of things. It stores
        >> pages in a sort of plain text format. However, it's possible to use
        >> your own markup rules, so in principle it could be used with org
        >> files.
        >
        > Yes, I use PmWiki myself and think it's great. However, custom markup
        > rules would work only as a partial solution here, since PmWiki stores
        > pages (with all diffs) in its own peculiar flat file format that can't
        > really be edited directly. (Take a look at the files in your wiki.d
        > directory.)
        >
        > I suppose one could create org markup rules for Pmwiki and then edit the
        > pages in org-mode via w3m. There is also a defunct pmwiki-mode for emacs
        > that pulls PmWiki pages off a website for editing.
        >
        > For org-mode/wiki integration, oddmuse might be a good choice, since its
        > stores each pages as a very simple plain text file. In fact, a quick
        > google search revealed some efforts to create org-mode markup for
        > oddmuse a year ago.
        >
        > - http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Comments_on_Writing_Extensions
        >
        > - http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/4032
        >
        > I'll have to investigate further.
        >
        > - Matt
        >
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      • * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
          2009-01-19 15:03     ` Matthew Lundin
          2009-01-19 15:27       ` Sebastian Rose
        @ 2009-01-19 19:30       ` Ian Barton
          1 sibling, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
        From: Ian Barton @ 2009-01-19 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
          To: emacs-orgmode
        
        
        > 
        > Yes, I use PmWiki myself and think it's great. However, custom markup
        > rules would work only as a partial solution here, since PmWiki stores
        > pages (with all diffs) in its own peculiar flat file format that can't
        > really be edited directly. (Take a look at the files in your wiki.d
        > directory.)
        > 
        > I suppose one could create org markup rules for Pmwiki and then edit the
        > pages in org-mode via w3m. There is also a defunct pmwiki-mode for emacs
        > that pulls PmWiki pages off a website for editing.
        > 
        Matt,
        
        There is a CVS version of pmwiki-mode, which is fairly up to date. I use 
        it to edit my own pages. It's currently maintained by Lukasz Stafiniak 
        <lukstafi@gmail.com>. I'll try and find the url of the CVS repo.
        
        Ian.
        
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• * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
    2009-01-17 21:03 HOWTO export document to wiki text? Uwe Koloska
    2009-01-18 18:26 ` Matthew Lundin
  @ 2009-01-18 18:27 ` Eric Schulte
    2009-01-19 16:23 ` Christian Egli
    2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
  From: Eric Schulte @ 2009-01-18 18:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Uwe Koloska; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
  
  Uwe Koloska <uwe@koloro.de> writes:
  
  > Hello,
  >
  > there is this very nice export to text feature and the superb HTML export. But 
  > is it possible to convert org to some rich text notation used in wikis?  I 
  > would like to include some of my documents into a wiki (dokuwiki and 
  > TWiki/Foswiki).
  > And if there is no such feature yet, where do I have to start to implement it?
  >
  
  Hi,
  
  I believe the only export targets currently supported are html, xoxo,
  ascii, and latex.
  
  The first place to look for adding a new export format would be the
  org-exp.el file in ~/lisp/org-exp.el (where ~ is the root of your
  org-mode git directory).  See the function
  `org-export-preprocess-string' and specifically the let binding at the
  beginning which sets the htmlp, asciip, latexp, variables which indicate
  the export target.  I would be the place to start reading to see how
  exporting in org-mode works.
  
  You may want to implement the new export in a new file separate from the
  org-exp.el file.  This would be a good idea if the new export targets
  might not be of wide enough applicability to actually change org-exp.el
  (a fairly central org file).
  
  Best of luck -- Eric
  
  >
  > Thank you
  > Uwe Koloska
  >
  >
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• * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
    2009-01-17 21:03 HOWTO export document to wiki text? Uwe Koloska
    2009-01-18 18:26 ` Matthew Lundin
    2009-01-18 18:27 ` Eric Schulte
  @ 2009-01-19 16:23 ` Christian Egli
    2 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
  From: Christian Egli @ 2009-01-19 16:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: emacs-orgmode
  
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  Uwe Koloska <uwe@koloro.de> writes:
  
  > there is this very nice export to text feature and the superb HTML export. But 
  > is it possible to convert org to some rich text notation used in wikis?  I 
  > would like to include some of my documents into a wiki (dokuwiki and 
  > TWiki/Foswiki).
  
  Below is another quick hack solution: a simple sed script which does a
  very basic translation between org-mode and mediawiki.
  
  
  [-- Warning: decoded text below may be mangled, UTF-8 assumed --]
  [-- Attachment #2: org2mediawiki --]
  [-- Type: text/x-sh, Size: 912 bytes --]
  
  #!/bin/sed -f
  
  # headlines
  s/^\* \+\(.*\)$/== \1 ==/
  s/^\*\* \+\(.*\)$/=== \1 ===/
  s/^\*\*\* \+\(.*\)$/==== \1 ====/
  s/^\*\*\*\* \+\(.*\)$/===== \1 =====/
  s/^\*\*\*\*\* \+\(.*\)$/====== \1 ======/
  
  # links
  s/\[\[\(.*\)\]\[\(.*\)\]\]/[\1 \2]/
  
  # description lists
  s/^- \+\([^:]\+\)::\(.*\)$/; \1:\2/
  s/^ \+//
  
  # lists
  s/^- \+\(.*\)$/* \1/
  s/^ \{2\}- \+\(.*\)$/** \1/
  s/^ \{4\}- \+\(.*\)$/*** \1/
  s/^[1-9]\+\. \+\(.*\)$/# \1/
  s/^ \{2\}[1-9]\+\. \+\(.*\)$/## \1/
  s/^ \{4\}[1-9]\+\. \+\(.*\)$/### \1/
  
  # source code
  s/^: \+\(.*\)$/ \1/
  
  # emphasis, bold
  s/\*\([^*]\+\)\*/'''\1'''/
  s/ \/\([^/]\+\)\/ / ''\1'' /
  
  # quotes
  s/^#+BEGIN_QUOTE$/<blockquote>/
  s/^#+END_QUOTE$/<\/blockquote>/
  
  # comments
  s/^#+.*$//
  
  # tables
  s/^|[-+]\+|$//
  s/^|\([^|]*\)|$/|-\n|\1/
  s/^|\([^|]*\)|\([^|]*\)|$/|-\n|\1||\2/
  s/^|\([^|]*\)|\([^|]*\)|\([^|]*\)|$/|-\n|\1||\2||\3/
  s/^|\([^|]*\)|\([^|]*\)|\([^|]*\)|\([^|]*\)|$/|-\n|\1||\2||\3||\4/
  
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  Hope that helps
  Christian
  
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* HOWTO export document to wiki text?
@ 2009-01-19  7:05 Rustom Mody
  2009-01-19 15:32 ` Carsten Dominik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 11+ messages in thread
From: Rustom Mody @ 2009-01-19  7:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

Uwe Koloska <uwe <at> koloro.de> writes:

> there is this very nice export to text feature and the superb HTML export.
<snipped>
> And if there is no such feature yet, where do I have to start to implement it?

+1 for me.

I need at least two more exporters, maybe more -- they may be of
different level of generality/use to other org users.
If I can get a handle on it I'll try my hand.

As I understand (and Eric points out) org-exp.el is the central place
to start looking, but I gather that there is also another more
data-oriented approach experimentally supported by some Bastien code.
I remember Carsten talking about it some 2-3 months back that
something like this (entire org mode buffer as a lisp (property) list
or something to that effect) but that its not (yet then) integrated
into the rest of org.

So tips/pointers on this will be welcome.

Rustom

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• * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
    2009-01-19  7:05 Rustom Mody
  @ 2009-01-19 15:32 ` Carsten Dominik
    0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
  From: Carsten Dominik @ 2009-01-19 15:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: Rustom Mody; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
  
  
  On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
  
  > Uwe Koloska <uwe <at> koloro.de> writes:
  >
  >> there is this very nice export to text feature and the superb HTML  
  >> export.
  > <snipped>
  >> And if there is no such feature yet, where do I have to start to  
  >> implement it?
  >
  > +1 for me.
  >
  > I need at least two more exporters, maybe more -- they may be of
  > different level of generality/use to other org users.
  > If I can get a handle on it I'll try my hand.
  >
  > As I understand (and Eric points out) org-exp.el is the central place
  > to start looking, but I gather that there is also another more
  > data-oriented approach experimentally supported by some Bastien code.
  > I remember Carsten talking about it some 2-3 months back that
  > something like this (entire org mode buffer as a lisp (property) list
  > or something to that effect) but that its not (yet then) integrated
  > into the rest of org.
  
  
  That code is in the EXP subdirectory of the git repo, in the file
  org-export.el.
  It is not very well integrated yet, and it also does only a partial
  parsing job, basically the document structure and the meta data.
  
  I did have high hope for this a while ago, it could have become the
  basis for a new general export engine.  But I think that dream is
  gone - unless someone picks it up now.
  
  Basic approach would be:
  
  - start with org-export.el.
  - enhance the parser so that it will at least do plain lists - there
     is an excellent list parser (org-parse-list, also by Bastien) in  
  org-list.el.
  - use that to split the "content" part of each entry into sub blocks
     like
  
     (paragraph "text")
     (ordered-list bullet-type
       item1 item2 ....)
     (unordered-list bullet-type
       item1 item2 ....)
  
      or similar, where item is some kind of structure that also
      holds information about a possible check box and its state.
  
  - Also find a way to put setup information like #+STARTUP etc into
     structured elements.
  
  When this is done, write a function that can write a valid Org file
  from such a list, and you have written an org-to-org converter, with the
  practical application to normalize Org files.
  
  Then you can start writing wiki converters, with using the list
  structure as the common intermediate format.
  
  My personal feeling is right now that we will not anymore *replace*
  the HTML and LaTeX exporters with this new exporter, because too much
  specialized work has gone into making these really quite nice
  and feature rich.
  
  However as a basis for any new exporters, and in particular as
  an engine to read an write wiki formats, this could really work
  very well.
  
  I will be ready help with advice, but I will not do this myself.
  
  - Carsten
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  >
  >
  > So tips/pointers on this will be welcome.
  >
  > Rustom
  >
  >
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• * Re: HOWTO export document to wiki text?
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  @ 2009-01-19 15:40 ` Robert Goldman
    0 siblings, 0 replies; 11+ messages in thread
  From: Robert Goldman @ 2009-01-19 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
    To: emacs-orgmode, uwe
  
  I have a start on a wiki syntax exporter that I took by modifying the
  latex exporter (some wikis have quite extensive markup).
  
  Here's what I would like to suggest:
  
  1.  There are an infuriatingly large number of different wiki syntaxes.
   I'd like to suggest that we should avoid having to write a zillion
  different standalone exporters.
  
  2.  Emacs lisp doesn't have object-oriented programming to help with
  this, but we can simulate it with tables of functions.  So, for example,
  we could have vectors with entries for functions that format italicized
  text for media-wiki, tiki wiki, etc.
  
  3.  A first job would be to make a list of all of the kinds of export
  that we see in the latex exporter, and define a structure that provides
  entries for all of these export types.
  
  If we do the above, we can hijack the top-level export routine from,
  e.g., latex export, and then plug in different tables for the different
  wikis.
  
  Feel free to contact me off-line about this; I would be more than happy
  to work with you on it.
  
  Best,
  Robert
  
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