[Orgmode] Re: [GitHub #1050] format org-mode READMEs for html display (without using emacs)

[Eric Schulte]

Hi Chris,

I'll 'CC the org-mode mailing list and see if anyone has any ideas as to
your question.

 non-elisp (preferably Ruby, maybe CommonLisp) tools for exporting
 org-mode files to html.

I don't believe such a thing currently exists.

Along the lines of an independent org-mode to html converter (either in
ruby on in common lisp: common lisp may be able to steal chunks of code
from org-exp.el) it may not be too difficult to get 80% of the exporter
utility with only 20% of the full org-exporter functionality.

The Features that jump out to me include:

resolving [[html://foo.bar][link name]] style links

wrapping tables in <pre></pre> blocks

converting outline headers to html headlines

resolving
 - one
 - two
 - three

and

 1. point
 2. another point
 3. and another point

lists to <ul>, <ol> lists respectively.

should get most of the way there (at least a usable base, which could be
expanded as needed).

Thanks for looking into this -- Eric

Lighthouse <address@hidden> writes:

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> defunkt updated this ticket at October 23, 2008 01:08
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> Hey Eric,
>
> As an Emacs user I would love to add this feature. Do you know of any
> simpler way to generate HTML from org-mode though? We don't currently
> have emacs installed on all our servers and it would be quite a
> dependency for a single feature.
>
> If not, I might look at writing a generator in Ruby or something as
> part of my open source Friday.
>
> - Chris
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