Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode

[Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>]

Dale Smith <dales@vxitech.com> writes:

> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Gour <gour@mail.inet.hr> writes:
>>> Otoh, number of tags in DocBook is overwhelming and, imgo, way too
>>> distracting for most documentation tasks, at least, for *my* use-cases.
>>
>>
>> It is, and that's exactly why the DocBook export is such a great thing. 
>>
>> You could say a similar thing about (valid) XHTML, LaTeX, reST -
>> whatever markup you're not familiar with.
>>
>> With the DocBook exporter, learning DocBook is reduced to pressing `C-c
>> C-e' and choose the right option ;-)
>
> And that's one of the reasons I would like a docbook exporter.
>
> I see myself with two usage patterns.  One is where I keep the file in
> org (or muse) format, and export to docbook and eventually pdf for
> external consumption.  The other is where I use org (or muse) to
> "start" the docbook file, and then continue to edit the docbook.  This
> is because docbook is so much richer than any wiki format, and I want
> to take advantage of what's there.

With the DocBook exporter, I can imagine another usage pattern: we can
use the powerful list, section, and table editing functionality, quickly
edit some paragraphs or sections, export them into DocBook format, and
then include them into other big DocBook files.

Baoqiu