Hi Jambunathan, Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> writes:
> Matt Lundin <m...@imapmail.org> writes: > >> I agree that the org-exporter currently does its job very well. The >> astounding utility of org-mode is ample proof of the value of releasing >> early; even if the exporter is not as elegant as a modern compiler, it >> works. :) >> >> That said, I very much support Nicolas' proposal. > > A quick (prototype) exporter demoing Nicolas's proposal could be > developed by using my new org-html.el in under few hours. > > Think of it this way: If something could be XML-ified it could be > lispified. My exporter already has a common core that emits html and odt > and it is a matter of altering few callbacks so that it generates a > lispy list instead of XML. Thanks for all the hard work on your exporter and the rewrite! I look forward to looking at it more closely very soon. In the meantime, does anyone have advice on how to start creating a formal syntax definition for org-mode? Any good links or resources we might check out? I'm guessing that writing a formal definition is more complex than simply defining org-mode syntax in prose---that we are after something a little more formal and symbolic than "a headline is demarcated by one or more asterisks beginning at column 0 of a new line...." Is that correct? Best, Matt
