I tend to agree... I wasn't that hot about this possibility myself, but thought it would be prudent to ask.
Carsten Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 5, 2006, at 23:19, David O'Toole wrote: >> >> On a related note, Carsten are you reading? Something came up in IRC >> discussion, about making it easier to convert org documents to other >> formats. Although I am a bit resistant to the idea, especially since >> it would take things in a more muse-ish direction, I remember you had >> mentioned making a "cleaned up" publishing function that produces an >> intermediate format (s-expressions?) that could be transformed into >> something else. Are you still thinking about this? > > My interest in exporting Org-mode to more formats is quite limited. I > am not using Org-mode to write books. And if I want to produce a > book, moving away from the fantastic toolset for LaTeX available under > Emacs to something that limits my possibilities to a subset of LaTeX > is a loss, not a gain. > > Personally, I am not often in a situation where I need to produce many > different output formats of a document. The only major application > for this is documentation, for example of computer programs produce > documentation. There are many systems that can do this, for example > POD (developed for the perl documentation), TeXInfo, muse. I don't > see why Org-mode needs to be able to do the same. > > The one thing I would be interested in is indeed to produce one very > general format that would allow people to do with it whatever they > want. My feeling is that such a format could be based on the current > HTML exporter because it does a complete structural analysis of an > Org-mode document, and the output could be some kind of semantic-only > HTML, or XML, or whatever. I have not taken any steps toward > implementing this, and right now I don't see it happening. > > - Carsten > > -- Dave O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
