Re: How to export to the simplest possible HTML?

[Thomas Redelberger <redetho@t-online.de>]

Dear Marcin and everybody,

I had a similar requirement for "simplest HTML" and have documented how I tackled this under
  http://web222.webclient5.de/doc/swdev/emacs/orgmode/html

In summary, it is
- a few settings in init.el:
   + org-html-text-markup-alist similar to below
   + setting org-export-allow-bind-keywords to t
- seeting quite some org variables via in-buffer settings
- elisp to steer a final XSLT transformation of the generated HTML


I had coded a derived export back-end (for Emacs 25.1) and used it quite for some time. When I moved to Emacs 27.2, the derived back-end did not work any more, hence I changed to above aproach.

Best regards
Thomas


Am 2023-05-30 um 20:48 schrieb Marcin Borkowski:
> 
> On 2023-05-30, at 17:32, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 30/05/2023 10:47, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>>> since I'm going to
>>> call my exporting function in a loop over many elements.  I tried
>>> (org-export-with-backend 'html (org-element-at-point (point)))
>>
>> There is `org-export-string-as', but likely it is not suitable for
>> you. My guess is that you are going to export headings (blog posts) to
>> separate html files.
> 
> Correct, dear Holmes. ;-)
> 
>>> This is /italic/.
>>> can become e.g.
>>> This is <span class="emphasize">italic</span>.
>>
>> I am curious whether <em> is more friendly to screen readers
>> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/em
> 
> Good point.  You're right, I'll probably go with `<em>' then.  (The
> reason I wanted `<span>' was that I wan't somewhat atypical styling,
> namely letterspace.  But of course css magic can make `<em>' do this,
> too.)
> 
>>> I'm considering writing a custom (derived) export backend, but maybe
>>> that is an overkill?  Any ideas?
>>
>> I just have noticed
>>
>> (defcustom org-html-text-markup-alist
>>    '((bold . "<b>%s</b>")
>>      (code . "<code>%s</code>")
>>      (italic . "<i>%s</i>")
>>      (strike-through . "<del>%s</del>")
>>      (underline . "<span class=\"underline\">%s</span>")
>>      (verbatim . "<code>%s</code>"))
>>    "Alist of HTML expressions to convert text markup.
>>
>> You may look into ox-html customizations such as
>> (:html-doctype "HTML_DOCTYPE" nil org-html-doctype)
>> (:html-html5-fancy nil "html5-fancy" org-html-html5-fancy)
>>
>> I have never tried ox-slimhtml:
>> Laszlo Elo. ox-slimhtml. Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:48:27
>> -0500. https://list.orgmode.org/41D2E10D-BCFF-4604-8417-B499514AF904@bald.cat
> 
> Ah, that looks interesting, too.
> 
> Thanks!
>