Re: Wanted: org-publish-org-to-ascii

[Matthias Danzl <mdanzl1@aol.com>]

Am 13.10.2010 21:12, schrieb Juan Pechiar:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 07:59:23PM +0200, Manuel Danzl wrote:
>> I'm a happy org-mode user since a few month's and I'm using org-publish
>> to write on some work related documentation. Now my collegues asked me
>> to export the docs not only to html but also to plain text!
>>
>> Unfortunately, org-mode currently lacks a publishing function exporting
>> to ascii, so I kindly ask you to implement it.
>
> Copying from the definition for org-publish-org-to-html:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC: emacs-lisp
>
> (defun org-publish-org-to-ascii (plist filename pub-dir)
>    "Publish an org file to ASCII.
> See `org-publish-org-to' to the list of arguments."
>    (org-publish-with-aux-preprocess-maybe
>      (org-publish-org-to "ascii" plist filename pub-dir)))
>
> #+END_SRC
>
> you can even use "utf8" instead of "ascii".
>
> Then use the newly defined org-publish-org-to-ascii as the
> :publishing-function in your publish project.
>
> Not tested, you try it :-)
>
> Regards,
> .j.


That did the job! Thanks Juan. I can now publish to html and txt. Very 
nice.

Sorry I've created a lot of confusion, cause some people thought, I was 
talking about the =export= function, not the =publish= function. Thanks 
for all the replies though.

I even

Manuel