Re: Saving markup formats

[Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@cmu.edu>]

Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk> writes:

> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>>> I have a clue... but I'm not really interested
>>> in editing them as XML files.
>> 
>> I guess that would be the price (to edit them as XML). I understand it 
>> as if you want some intermediate view. I think that is reasonable only 
>> on an abstract level (like navigating etc).

> I want emacs to be my word processor. I don't care about wysiwyg. I
> just want to be able to edit the files. I don't think this is
> unreasonable since most of the information is in well-marked up
> documents.

> Let me tell you about how I make my CV right now:

> - I edit the CV in org mode
> - I transform org mode to XOXO/XHTML using elisp
> - I run an XSLT transform to turn the XOXO into XHTML
> - I run an XSLT transform to turn the XHTML into an OpenDoc
>   content.xml file
> - I zip the new content.xml file up with a standard template for the
>   other files that come with an OpenDoc file

That seems like a very long a difficult process for something that could
be done directly, with a more convenient syntax, and with better looking
output, using LaTeX.  ;)

Of course that has nothing to do with this thread, except perhaps the
fact that many people, including myself, use Emacs exclusively for word
processing by using it to edit LaTeX.  That may well be the best way to
use Emacs as a word processor.

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Jeremy Maitin-Shepard