Re: Org to ConTeXt exporter?

[Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>]

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I have never used ConTeXt, but from what I've seen, despite its many
differences, a lot is still similar to TeX/LaTeX (e.g. math). Given this, I
think it might be easier to create a new derived exporter from ox-latex,
and override the parts that differ, instead of creating a new one
completely from scratch.

You can see an example in my own
https://github.com/zzamboni/ox-leanpub/blob/master/ox-leanpub-markua.el,
which uses ox-md as a backend for defining the new ox-markua exporter.

There is also already some documentation at
https://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-export-reference.html

--Diego


On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:09 PM Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> wrote:

>
> On 2020-12-28, at 14:38, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Just out of curiosity, I am wondering if there are plans to create an
> > Org to ConTeXt exporter in the future, or if there is already some work
> > in progress on this front.
> >
> > I have to say that among TeX formats I tend to prefer LaTeX to ConTeXt;
> > but ConTeXt has very interesting features (grid typesetting, for
> > example) that LaTeX lacks (for now) and has a more monolithic structure,
> > that is, it does not need to be extended through packages as in LaTeX.
>
> Creating an exporter from scratch is probably easier than you think.
> A few years ago I planned a tutorial about this, but another job
> happened, then covid happened etc.  Now that I finished some big project
> taking me a lot of time, I might be tempted to revisit that.  Would
> there be demand for a DYI Org-exporter-from-scratch tutorial?
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Marcin Borkowski
> http://mbork.pl
>
>

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