From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David O'Toole Subject: Re: [David O'Toole] Fwd: Re: org-publish future ? Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:48:21 -0400 Message-ID: References: <5a66e8bc561ad58f8ec11eb9d01b2e97@science.uva.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FnZ6t-0001D3-3A for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:48:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FnZ6p-0001Cq-MO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:48:29 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FnZ6p-0001Cn-H0 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:48:27 -0400 Received: from [66.249.82.193] (helo=wx-out-0102.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FnZEB-0000aw-A2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 06:56:03 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id s19so993256wxc for ; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 03:48:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5a66e8bc561ad58f8ec11eb9d01b2e97@science.uva.nl> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Tue, 6 Jun 2006 12:29:46 +0200") 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: Carsten Dominik Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I tend to agree... I wasn't that hot about this possibility myself, but thought it would be prudent to ask. Carsten Dominik writes: > On Jun 5, 2006, at 23:19, David O'Toole wrote: >> >> On a related note, Carsten are you reading? Something came up in IRC >> discussion, about making it easier to convert org documents to other >> formats. Although I am a bit resistant to the idea, especially since >> it would take things in a more muse-ish direction, I remember you had >> mentioned making a "cleaned up" publishing function that produces an >> intermediate format (s-expressions?) that could be transformed into >> something else. Are you still thinking about this? > > My interest in exporting Org-mode to more formats is quite limited. I > am not using Org-mode to write books. And if I want to produce a > book, moving away from the fantastic toolset for LaTeX available under > Emacs to something that limits my possibilities to a subset of LaTeX > is a loss, not a gain. > > Personally, I am not often in a situation where I need to produce many > different output formats of a document. The only major application > for this is documentation, for example of computer programs produce > documentation. There are many systems that can do this, for example > POD (developed for the perl documentation), TeXInfo, muse. I don't > see why Org-mode needs to be able to do the same. > > The one thing I would be interested in is indeed to produce one very > general format that would allow people to do with it whatever they > want. My feeling is that such a format could be based on the current > HTML exporter because it does a complete structural analysis of an > Org-mode document, and the output could be some kind of semantic-only > HTML, or XML, or whatever. I have not taken any steps toward > implementing this, and right now I don't see it happening. > > - Carsten > > -- Dave O'Toole dto@gnu.org