Re: [ANN] ASCII back-end for new export engine

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

"Sebastien Vauban"
<wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> writes:

> Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

>> I used:
>>
>> (add-to-list 'org-entities-user '("omacr" "\\={o}" nil "&#333;" "o" "o" "ō"))
>>
>> without a problem.
>
> IIUC, you specify how to translate some "LaTeX-like command" to the different
> back-ends. But I don't see DocBook nor OOo in the list:
>
>     ┏━━━━
>     ┃ User-defined entities used in Org-mode to produce special characters.
>     ┃ Each entry in this list is a list of strings.  It associates the name
>     ┃ of the entity that can be inserted into an Org file as \name with the
>     ┃ appropriate replacements for the different export backends.  The order
>     ┃ of the fields is the following
>     ┃ 
>     ┃ name                 As a string, without the leading backslash
>     ┃ LaTeX replacement    In ready LaTeX, no further processing will take place
>     ┃ LaTeX mathp          A Boolean, either t or nil.  t if this entity needs
>     ┃                      to be in math mode.
>     ┃ HTML replacement     In ready HTML, no further processing will take place.
>     ┃                      Usually this will be an &...; entity.
>     ┃ ASCII replacement    Plain ASCII, no extensions.  Symbols that cannot be
>     ┃                      represented will be left as they are, but see the.
>     ┃                      variable `org-entities-ascii-explanatory'.
>     ┃ Latin1 replacement   Use the special characters available in latin1.
>     ┃ utf-8 replacement    Use the special characters available in utf-8.
>     ┃ 
>     ┃ If you define new entities here that require specific LaTeX packages to be
>     ┃ loaded, add these packages to `org-export-latex-packages-alist'.
>     ┗━━━━
>
> Aren't those backends missing?  Or do I miss how it really is used?

I think most back-ends understand at least one of the formats used in
this alist. For example the DocBook one just reads HTML entry.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou