From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baoqiu Cui Subject: Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 00:36:01 -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> 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 1LemaX-000072-TB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:36:25 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LemaW-00006l-3b for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:36:25 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47144 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LemaW-00006i-15 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:36:24 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:7127) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LemaV-0000I0-EF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:36:23 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LemaU-0003bw-HR for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:36:22 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LemaR-00049L-1g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:36:19 +0000 Received: from nat-dip6.cfw-a-gci.corp.yahoo.com ([209.131.62.115]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:36:19 +0000 Received: from cbaoqiu by nat-dip6.cfw-a-gci.corp.yahoo.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:36:19 +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 Gour writes: >>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Rose writes: > > Sebastian> I highly apreciate the support of Docbook and your > Sebastian> effort. Yet, I think I don't want to publish XHTML through > Sebastian> Docbook. > > +1 > > I gave up on DocBook long ago. It's pain to author documents in it and > the tools are quite weak. Actually nXML mode has made editing DocBook and other XML files a fun process. At least less "painful" than editing LaTeX files to many people. It is true that many open-source tools around DocBook are still not perfect, but they should be good enough for most of the work of most users. Some commercial tools exist and are better, but they are not free. (I have not used reST, however it does not seem to me that it has more tools than DocBook.) > That why I don't like AsciiDoc as well being based on Docbook tool-chain > and therefore decided to use reST markup which is much lighter, nicely > supported and it can export to many formats (e.g. xhtml, odt, pdf..) I just checked reST markup specifications, and they do look powerful (but not very lightweight). Maybe it *is* time to have a standard to unify all these plain-text based lightweight markup languages: Muse, Org, reST, asciidoc, all kinds of *wiki*, doxygen styles, etc. These languages won't be lightweight and easy to read once they become more powerful. At that point, I'd prefer to go back to LaTeX or DocBook. > Therefore I'm interested about any hint how could reST be used with > org-mode? That may require some code sharing/merging between rst.el and Org-mode, I guess. :-) Baoqiu