Re: Re: S5 export

[Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>]

Hi Achim,

Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> writes:

> Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr> writes:
>> I would welcome an approach where we factor out some elements of
>> org-export-as-html, so that exporting to s5 would just require the 
>> user to customize those elements.
>
> Sorry for piggy-backing onto this topic, but I seem to remember the
> mention of a "generic exporter" on this list, but I don't remember what
> the outcome of that discussion was.  While looking at the table export I
> realized that there is lots of duplicated code just for exporting the
> tables, which seems wasteful (and error-prone in the longer term). Would
> it seem reasonable to have a "generic export" function that parses the
> org document into a structure of callbacks and lists and then only
> define the callbacks for each backend?

There are now three generic exporters:

- org-export-generic.el in contrib/lisp/ by Wes Hardaker
- org-export.el (in EXPERIMENTAL/)
- the one that Jambunathan and Lennart provide with the odt export

I will document org-export.el -- don't hesitate to have a look.

I will also take time to look more closely at the work Lennart did 
for the odt export to see whether we can refactor some org-parse.el
with the parsing functions in org-export.el.

This requires more time that I have everyday, expect this to happen
after a long week-end!

-- 
 Bastien