Re: org-publish future ?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

What I like about org-publish is that it is general, and really 
focusses on the essentials of just the publishing process, without 
intermingling these issues with the formatting issues.  I believe you 
could publish muse files and bhdl files with org-publish, by just 
calling the appropriate functions or if necessary write a trivial 
wrapper around them.  Maybe you could also publish Org-mode files with 
Muse, I am not sure.

I myself don't see Org-mode primarily as a publishing tool at all.  The 
motivation for writing Org-mode was twofold:

- to get to a handle on the many things I need to do
- to collect all ideas that I had for writing plain text notes
   in Emacs into a single mode.  For me, Org-mode is vastly more
   convenient to use that any other text mode I know of.

David's org-publish gave me a one-key way to get these files on a 
webpage, something I use mostly internally to share notes with 
collaborators.  Importantly, I can let it take care of also updating 
any additional files like source code that might have changed and need 
updating.  That is exactly what I need.

About future development: I really like how basic and straight 
org-publish is.  No need to create another monster.  Maybe add a few 
more general publishing-functions (right now there are only two: 
org-to-html, and a plain copy for attachments) to save some users from 
writing their own.  But the basic setup looks fine and complete to me.

- Carsten


On Jun 5, 2006, at 22:03, Xavier Maillard wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I was looking on emacswiki searching for publish engines for Emacs. 
> Actually, I have found at least three of them:
>
> 1. muse
> 2. emacs-wiki
> 3. bhl
>
> Adding org-publish to this list, we got 4 engines that do merely the 
> same thing except for org-publish which offers less features. So what 
> is the current goal for org-publish exactly ? Is there any possiblity 
> that org-publish be incorporated into something bigger and more 
> insteresting for us as end users. are there any plans for orc-publish 
> if at all ?
>
> I know David is quite busy with all his projects but I would like to 
> know if it is worth I learn org-publish in depth or switch to 
> something else. So David, what are your plans ? :)
>
> Regards
> --