Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode

[Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>]

Baoqiu Cui writes:
 > Hello Dominik,

Sorry, I meant "Prof. Dominik".  The email address misled me. :-)

Baoqiu

 > use it two weeks ago.  I've been using (X)Emacs since 1995, and had
 > tried to use Muse about 2-3 years ago for note-taking and simple
 > publishing (i.e. generating LaTeX or DocBook documents from Muse).
 > However, I remember I ran into some serious limitations (like list
 > handling, etc.) in Muse and finally gave up on it.  I went back to
 > writing documentation directly in either LaTeX or DocBook (I use nXML
 > mode for DocBook editing).
 > 
 > Org-mode impressed me with its nice table editing functionality,
 > flexible/powerful list support and headline (or section/subsection)
 > manipulations, and *many* other features.  I really appreciate your work
 > on this valuable package, and foresee that I will be doing many more
 > things in Org-mode.
 > 
 > The only thing that is missing (at least to me) in current Org-mode is
 > the exporter for DocBook format.  DocBook is becoming more and more
 > popular, so a DocBook exporter in Org-mode could make more people move
 > to Org-mode.  Also, since there are a lot open-source or commercial
 > tools to convert DocBook format to almost any other formats (PDF,
 > PostScript, HTML, XHTML, Text, RTF, etc.), DocBook exporter could be the
 > main exporter that Org-mode needs to support.
 > 
 > During the last week (mainly during the last weekend), I wrote some code
 > to export Org files to DocBook V5.0 format, and everything looks very
 > promising (I have to admit that a lot of work still needs to be done to
 > make the code complete and stable) .  I am wondering how I can
 > contribute the code to Org-mode.
 > 
 > I am attaching a PDF file generated from a DocBook XML file that was
 > exported by my org-export-docbook.el, and would like to get your early
 > feedback/comments.
 > 
 > 
 > Regards,
 > Baoqiu