Re: Tweaking the export

[Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com>]

Hi Sebastian,

On 2012-01-27 23:03, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Just a side comment: isn't easier to work in 2 different files or buffers 
> (eventually, within the same file) and use some sort of "parallel" 
> follow-mode? I thought such a thing existed, but can't find it back right 
> now. Anyway, it would be quite easy to implement: it's more or less 
> implementing C-v/M-v so that it's done in two parallel buffers at the same 
> time, instead of just in one!? Best regards, Seb 
What you describe is Two-Column mode, and this was suggested by Jambunathan 
before.  I did try this alley, but for me org-mode works better.  One of the 
reasons for this is, that there are some structural aspects that are common 
to both files.  Another reason is that I want to be able grep through the 
files and be able to see matching lines in both languages -- this helps me 
ensure a consistent translation.  So the current setup is really nice for me 
for doing the work, but now I need to construct the pipeline for 
publication.  As Jambunathan put it, this is really a problem of tangling 
the output.

BTW, I think the general exporter should also be able to to a org-mode to 
org-mode conversion.  This would provide a general framework to 
systematically correct little problems in files.  I guess here it shows that 
I am coming from the XML world, where a conversion from one XML file to 
another XML file with slight alterations of some aspects is a very common 
pattern.

All the best,

Christian

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Christian Wittern, Kyoto