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To: Gour <gour@mail.inet.hr>
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Hi Gour,

Gour <gour@mail.inet.hr> writes:

>>>>>> "Sebastian" == Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>
> Sebastian> I highly apreciate the support of Docbook and your
> Sebastian> effort. Yet, I think I don't want to publish XHTML through
> Sebastian> Docbook.
>
> +1  
>
> I gave up on DocBook long ago. It's pain to author documents in it and
> the tools are quite weak.
>
> That why I don't like AsciiDoc as well being based on Docbook tool-chain
> and therefore decided to use reST markup which is much lighter, nicely
> supported and it can export to many formats (e.g. xhtml, odt, pdf..)
>
> Therefore I'm interested about any hint how could reST be used with
> org-mode?

Apart from odt output, I'd be curious to know what reST can do that
org-mode markup and export cannot. Footnotes, tables, hyperlinks,
images---I've found org-mode to be a really great authoring tool for
exporting both to xhtml, ascii, and LaTeX/pdf output. (And, of course,
using latex2rtf, it's trivial to convert the tex files org-mode produces
into files that can be edited in Open Office.)

> (I'd use muse, but it's not so 'standard' as reST for non-Emacs
> users.)

I wonder if the ascii export from org would be difficult to convert to
reST markup. Section headers and footnotes in the ascii export seem
pretty close to the corresponding markup in reST. Just a thought....

- Matt