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[Orgmode] Re: docbook export-special
From: |
Rustom Mody |
Subject: |
[Orgmode] Re: docbook export-special |
Date: |
Thu, 28 May 2009 13:17:22 +0530 |
Hello Baoqiu,
Rustom Mody <rustompmody <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Baoqiu wrote:
>> What do you mean by export-special?
>
> Well the latest org comes with a contributed org-special-blocks.el
> [sorry I misnamed it]
>
>> Do you mean exporting blocks that look like the following lines?
>
>> #+begin_xyz
>> ...
>> #+end_xyz
>
> Yes I guess that would be what I want.
> Thanks for the confirmation, Rustom. Carsten and I had several email
> exchanges on this topic last month, and we decided to not support such
> special blocks in DocBook exporter (see the following email).
> Can you use #+BEGIN_DOCBOOK ... #+END_DOCBOOK instead to achieve what
> you want?
> Thanks,
> Baoqiu
Well something would be better than nothing :-)
My own view: latex and html are very different from docbook.
1. latex and html are specific presentation formats as against docbook
which is a general content format
2. Conversely no one wants to use docbook for itself but rather as a
stepping stone to something else -- typically pdf/html but in
principle any arbitrary 'end'-format. This means that
docbook-exporter allowing for potential docbook errors is a smaller
problem than making impossible something which
a. can be/is already available in org
b. is supported in the 'end'-format
c. but is unavailable in the interim (docbook)
One such thing which may not be meaningful in latex and html but is a
lack in docbook is property exports.
Maybe if you or Carsten feel this should not go into org then
org-special-blocks is the place for it?