From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: docbook export-special Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:00:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9bTT-0006Bg-Od for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:00:31 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9bTO-00063r-UW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:00:31 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37980 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9bTO-00063i-Qe for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:00:26 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f162.google.com ([209.85.219.162]:59378) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9bTO-0007vn-1L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 May 2009 05:00:26 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so5661981ewy.42 for ; Thu, 28 May 2009 02:00:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Rustom Mody Cc: emacs-orgmode On May 28, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > Hello Baoqiu, > > Rustom Mody gmail.com> writes: > >> Baoqiu wrote: >>> What do you mean by export-special? >> >> Well the latest org comes with a contributed org-special-blocks.el >> [sorry I misnamed it] >> >>> Do you mean exporting blocks that look like the following lines? >> >>> #+begin_xyz >>> ... >>> #+end_xyz >> >> Yes I guess that would be what I want. > >> Thanks for the confirmation, Rustom. Carsten and I had several email >> exchanges on this topic last month, and we decided to not support >> such >> special blocks in DocBook exporter (see the following email). > >> Can you use #+BEGIN_DOCBOOK ... #+END_DOCBOOK instead to achieve what >> you want? > >> Thanks, >> Baoqiu > > Well something would be better than nothing :-) > > My own view: latex and html are very different from docbook. > 1. latex and html are specific presentation formats as against docbook > which is a general content format > 2. Conversely no one wants to use docbook for itself but rather as a > stepping stone to something else -- typically pdf/html but in > principle any arbitrary 'end'-format. This means that > docbook-exporter allowing for potential docbook errors is a smaller > problem than making impossible something which > a. can be/is already available in org > b. is supported in the 'end'-format > c. but is unavailable in the interim (docbook) > > One such thing which may not be meaningful in latex and html but is a > lack in docbook is property exports. This, I think, was the reason why we could not see a good way to do this in docbook. - Carsten > > Maybe if you or Carsten feel this should not go into org then > org-special-blocks is the place for it? I think you need to come up with a concrete implementation proposal. - Carsten > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode