From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rustom Mody Subject: Re: docbook export-special Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 13:17:22 +0530 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9aKp-0004is-Se for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:47:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9aKk-0004g5-Vl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:47:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51289 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9aKk-0004g0-Q9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:47:26 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:4881) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9aKk-0003Xo-9g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:47:26 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f179.google.com ([209.85.216.179]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9aKi-0000vs-C9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 03:47:24 -0400 Received: by pxi9 with SMTP id 9so5298570pxi.14 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 00:47:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode Hello Baoqiu, Rustom Mody gmail.com> writes: > Baoqiu wrote: >> What do you mean by export-special? > > Well the latest org comes with a contributed org-special-blocks.el > [sorry I misnamed it] > >> Do you mean exporting blocks that look like the following lines? > >> #+begin_xyz >> ... >> #+end_xyz > > Yes I guess that would be what I want. > Thanks for the confirmation, Rustom. Carsten and I had several email > exchanges on this topic last month, and we decided to not support such > special blocks in DocBook exporter (see the following email). > Can you use #+BEGIN_DOCBOOK ... #+END_DOCBOOK instead to achieve what > you want? > Thanks, > Baoqiu Well something would be better than nothing :-) My own view: latex and html are very different from docbook. 1. latex and html are specific presentation formats as against docbook which is a general content format 2. Conversely no one wants to use docbook for itself but rather as a stepping stone to something else -- typically pdf/html but in principle any arbitrary 'end'-format. This means that docbook-exporter allowing for potential docbook errors is a smaller problem than making impossible something which a. can be/is already available in org b. is supported in the 'end'-format c. but is unavailable in the interim (docbook) One such thing which may not be meaningful in latex and html but is a lack in docbook is property exports. Maybe if you or Carsten feel this should not go into org then org-special-blocks is the place for it?