Re: [Orgmode] Evangelize the world with Org-mode

[Russell Adams]

How about a click-thru to download a PDF of the current page? 

I need to go back and look into Worg some more.

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:08:59AM -0400, Greg Newman wrote:
> There already is Worg for wiki and pdf generation is already a core  
> function of org-mode.
> Not sure if i'm missing something here or not.
>
>
> On Oct 16, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Scot Becker wrote:
>
>> Sebastien,
>>
>> I don't think any of this is crazy.
>>
>>  The first idea is similar to the HTML composition GUIs which now seem 
>> to be everywhere.  I'm told it's a pretty complex task to get them to 
>> reliably be both WYSISYG and to maintain syntactically correct markup 
>> through multiple edits, but people are attempting it---with some 
>> success for HTML and BBcode.
>>
>> Could org-syntax be used in a Wiki? I suppose so with some elisp or  
>> scripting infrasturcture.  In fact, such an idea is has potential to  
>> help with other problems as well, such as making simple changes to  
>> your server-stored org-documents when at a non-emacs machine or a  
>> simple web-enabled device like a smartphone.   I imagine that the  
>> overhead of processing org-markup to html via Emacs is high-ish in  
>> comparision with traditonal ways of generating html from other markup 
>> languages.   But with static pages and mostly internal use, that should 
>> be no issue.
>>
>> Look at this link for an example of online PDF generation.  In this  
>> case it's from another lightweight markup language called ReStructured 
>> Text, and uses pdflatex on a server to automatically generate pdf's.
>>
>> http://rst2a.com/
>>
>> If they can do it.....
>>
>> Scot
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