On Sat, Jun 25, 2022 at 5:18 PM David Masterson <dsmasterson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Robert Weiner <rswgnu@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Great to see you here too.  We could use you on extended Hyperbole
> > documentation if you ever get into it.
>
> Thanks, my hands don't type well anymore or I might've considered it,
>
> > 1.  The OO-Browser was part of InfoDock, my IDE framework atop XEmacs.
> > I have updated it for GNU Emacs but never get the time to finish it
> > enough to put it out there again as Hyperbole fills my spare time.
> > But reach out directly if you want to discuss.
>
> Oh! I forgot about Infodock!  OO-Browser would be good for the
> developers in the crowd.  Perhaps the new interest of Hyperbole v8 will
> spur interest in OO-Browsr.
>

I know it would be good to revive it.  Just need more time than I have now.

>
> > 2. We have not yet integrated org-export with the Koutliner but want
> > to.  You can convert a Koutline to a star outline and call it an Org
> > file, so it wouldn’t be too hard.  It has its own builtin export to
> > HTML from which you could get to pdf as well, I imagine.
>
> I didn't see in the documentation on how to convert a Koutline to a star
> outline.  That would be useful to me (especially if you could go the
> other way as well).  With this capability, it shouldn't be too hard
> write a standard file header in (say) commented Latex that could be
> included in the file (via a post-hook) which could then be run through
> org-export via org-publish.
>

Just use {M-x kimport:star-outline RET} when in an Org or Emacs outline
buffer to create a Koutline from them.

I just checked and there doesn't seem to be an equivalent
kexport:star-outline but you could probably write it without too much
effort using the existing kview:map-siblings function and starting from the
first cell.

-- rsw


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