From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Baoqiu Cui Subject: Re: DocBook exporter for Org-mode Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:06:19 -0800 Message-ID: <18860.15419.654715.778404@muchbodyking-lm.gateway.2wire.net> References: <18860.14549.718412.149720@muchbodyking-lm.gateway.2wire.net> Reply-To: Baoqiu Cui Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeEPA-0003Yl-6N for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:06:24 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LeEP9-0003XL-Ca for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:06:23 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50665 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LeEP9-0003XE-42 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:06:23 -0500 Received: from smtp109.prem.mail.sp1.yahoo.com ([98.136.44.54]:42067) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LeEP8-0005rB-Gu for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:06:22 -0500 In-Reply-To: <18860.14549.718412.149720@muchbodyking-lm.gateway.2wire.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: dominik@science.uva.nl, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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