Re: Tweaking the export

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com> writes:

> For the last couple of years, I have used org-mode more and more for
> working with and translating texts from classical Chinese.  Over time,
> some special conventions have crept in, like the fact that I like (for
> the draft translation) to work in a way that has a short chunk of
> Chinese text on the left and, separated by a <tab> character, the
> translation of that piece following on the same line (there are other
> special conventions like specialized drawers etc., but I don't need to
> discuss these here now.)
>
> While this is setup is extremely pleasant to work with, at some point
> I need to separate these two parts in separate texts; the stuff to the
> left of the <tab> has to go into one file, the stuff to the right to
> some other file, while at the same time merging the chunks of texts
> into paragraphs.   Now for quite some while if have thought about how
> to automate that, but until now, I have usually done it by hand with
> a couple of regex search-and-replace.
>
> Now, with the new export engine, it looks like all I would need to do
> would be to tweak the way paragraphs are handled, while leaving the
> rest intact, some kind of org to org transform that simply tweaks one
> single aspect of the text.  However, I am a bit baffled on where to
> start with this.  I would be glad if you or somebody else could give
> me some pointers at how to tackle this problem.  (And please be kind,
> since my elisp fu is pretty insignificant:-(  )

While I understand the shape of your input, I fail to see what you
output should you look like. For example, given the following paragraph,

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
text A	text A'
line 2	line 2 bis
A line with *emphasis*	A traduced line with *emphasis*
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

what exactly do you want to obtain ?


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou