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From: Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: exporting from org-mode to S-expressions
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To: Felipe Csaszar <fcsaszar@gmail.com>
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Hi Felipe,

Felipe Csaszar <fcsaszar@gmail.com> writes:

> Has anyone thought about a general framework for exporting Org
> documents? I seem to recall from somewhere that it was possible to
> export an Org document to a lisp S-expression, and then parse the
> S-expression to generate the desired output. But have not seen this
> implemented.
>
> The benefit of this approach is that then building an exporter to any
> output format becomes trivial. In fact a translator, let's say from
> Org to Beamer, could be implemented as just one function that
> describes how each lisp tag translates into a Beamer tag, instead of a
> 1500+ lines-long program such org-export-latex.el.
>
> It would be very beneficial to have such a general translation framework
> implemented in Org.

I believe the most recent talk about a generic export framework was in
this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/11930/focus=11939

Best,
Matt