Re: [Orgmode] Re: docbook export-special

[Carsten Dominik]

On May 28, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:

> Hello Baoqiu,
>
> Rustom Mody <rustompmody <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Baoqiu wrote:
> > > What do you mean by export-special?
> >
> > Well the latest org comes with a contributed org-special-blocks.el
> > [sorry I misnamed it]
> >
> > > Do you mean exporting blocks that look like the following lines?
> >
> > > #+begin_xyz
> > > ...
> > > #+end_xyz
> >
> > Yes I guess that would be what I want.
>
> > Thanks for the confirmation, Rustom.  Carsten and I had several email
> > exchanges on this topic last month, and we decided to not support  
> > such
> > special blocks in DocBook exporter (see the following email).
>
> > Can you use #+BEGIN_DOCBOOK ... #+END_DOCBOOK instead to achieve what
> > you want?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Baoqiu
>
> Well something would be better than nothing :-)
>
> My own view: latex and html are very different from docbook.
> 1. latex and html are specific presentation formats as against docbook
> which is a general content format
> 2. Conversely no one wants to use docbook for itself but rather as a
> stepping stone to something else -- typically pdf/html but in
> principle any arbitrary 'end'-format.  This means that
> docbook-exporter allowing for potential docbook errors is a smaller
> problem than making impossible something which
> a. can be/is already available in org
> b. is supported in the 'end'-format
> c. but is unavailable in the interim (docbook)
>
> One such thing which may not be meaningful in latex and html but is a
> lack in docbook is property exports.

This, I think, was the reason why we could not see a good way to do  
this in docbook.

- Carsten

> Maybe if you or Carsten feel this should not go into org then
> org-special-blocks is the place for it?

I think you need to come up with a concrete implementation proposal.

- Carsten

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