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From: Josiah Schwab <jschwab@gmail.com>
To: Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl>
Cc: Org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A custom exporter
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:40:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob7jsfzs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130923144828.342f6fd0@aga-netbook>


> I'm toying with an idea of writing my own exporter backend, based on the
> html one.  My question is: what should I read to learn how to do this?
> I am aware of http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/ox-overview.html, but
> ox-\(element-\)?docstrings look a bit scary.  I thought that reading
> the source code of some existing backend alongside the docstrings might
> be helpful.  Am I right?  Do you have any suggestions as to which one to
> choose first?  How did the authors of existing backends start learning
> how to do that, and do they have any tips for their younger colleague;)?

I'm also very much in the inexperienced camp, but I did find that
reading though a derived exporter (I read the ox-md.el) was useful.
Between that and asking couple of questions on this mailing list, I was
able to write the minimal exporter I needed.

Best,
Josiah

      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-23 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-23 12:48 A custom exporter Marcin Borkowski
2013-09-23 15:40 ` Josiah Schwab [this message]

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