From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baoqiu Cui Subject: Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:38:14 -0800 Message-ID: References: <18860.14549.718412.149720@muchbodyking-lm.gateway.2wire.net> <878wnmy3g8.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <87wsb6wmz9.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <87d4cywawk.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <873adt936f.fsf@gaura-nitai.no-ip.org> <87eixdmdhi.fsf@nitai.hr> <87y6vktgbf.fsf@nitai.hr> <873ads0y50.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBid-0001uu-Nb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:38:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBib-0001ui-7R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:38:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45501 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBib-0001uf-1a for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:38:33 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:33048 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LgBia-0005aK-Lh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:38:32 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LgBiV-0003DQ-Ob for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:38:27 +0000 Received: from adsl-76-192-233-190.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([76.192.233.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:38:27 +0000 Received: from cbaoqiu by adsl-76-192-233-190.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 08 Mar 2009 05:38:27 +0000 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Dale Smith writes: > Sebastian Rose writes: > >> Gour 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