Re: Org-publish: adding a new format?

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Bill,

the best approach might be to write an elisp program to do the post  
processing you do now in perl, and then to hook this function into  
`org-publish-after-export-hook'.

- Carsten

On Feb 11, 2010, at 5:43 AM, Bill Powell wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for adding a new format to
> "org-publish"? Any articles, or threads on the mailing list? I've
> looked around but haven't found anywhere to start.
>
> I want to convert an org file to a tab-separated format, so that it
> can be imported into a flashcard program called Anki
> [[http://ichi2.net/anki/]]. The basic idea is that each *** header is
> a prompt, and the following text is the answer.
>
> *** Who wrote /War and Peace/?
>
> Leo Tolstoy.
>
> *** What is the preferred editor for using Org-mode?
>
> Windows Notepad.
>
>
> and so on.
>
> The catch is, I'd also like to preserve the *bold* and /italic/  
> formatting.
> Not to mention those awesome org-tables.
>
> Now, Anki understands HTML formatting. So, ideally, I can use the
> excellent export to HTML that org-publish already does. That's 95% of
> the work right there.
>
> In fact, I have already written a Perl script that takes an exported
> HTML file and chomps it into a .tsv. (Almost.)
>
> But although my elisp is pretty rudimentary, I have a couple reasons
> I'd like to implement this within org-publish instead:
>
> 1) I could share my work (at least by posting it on my web site; my  
> elisp
> isn't ready for official contributions yet), and
>
> 2) It might make it easier to access the different org-elements
> directly. For instance, I use *** headers as prompts, so that I can
> use * and ** to organize the flashcards in the org-file. But, I would
> like to be able to save the * and ** headers, and use them as "tags"  
> in
> the final Anki flashcard. (Anki lets you tag your flashcard.)
> Similarly, I'd like to convert org-mode :tags: as well.
>
> I can do all this in Perl, but it feels messy and inelegant, not to
> mention brittle.
>
> On the other hand, those who know org-publish may feel that this is a
> tall order for org-export-html-final-hook, and just the sort of job
> that Perl does best.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> Bill Powell
>
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- Carsten