On 18 July 2011 01:14, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I think any formal expression
> would be more useful if could be fed to existing parser-generation tools
> to automatically write Org-mode parsers, or perhaps automatically
> convert between Org-mode and other document formats.  I'm not sure
> however to what degree that is just wishful thinking..
>
>
Perhaps Pandoc (http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/) would meet those
requirements.  It uses a great parsing library with a syntax that greatly
resembles a BNF grammar.  An output module is already written for org-mode,
so writing an input module would allow us to convert from org-mode to any
other of the existing Pandoc output formats (including "plain text,
markdown<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>,
reStructuredText<http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html>,
HTML <http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/>, LaTeX <http://www.latex-project.org/>,
ConTeXt <http://www.pragma-ade.nl/>,
PDF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format>,
RTF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Text_Format>, DocBook
XML<http://www.docbook.org/>,
OpenDocument XML <http://opendocument.xml.org/>,
ODT<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument>,
GNU Texinfo <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>, MediaWiki
markup<http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting>,
textile <http://redcloth.org/textile>, groff
man<http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPa>pages,
Emacs
org-mode <http://orgmode.org/>, EPUB
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPUB>ebooks, and
S5 <http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/> and
Slidy<http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy>HTML slide shows").  I've
been thinking of doing this for sometime now, as
an exercise in learning Haskell, but realistically I just don't have the
time.  does anyone else have the time?

Chris.