Re: [O] [DOCS] Re: Making DocBook xml books from org mode?

[Peter Davis]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016, at 03:37 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Hi, Tom,
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016, at 11:33 AM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> >> ... stuff excised ...
> >> 
> >> This was part of the old exporter.  It hasn't been ported to the new one.
> >
> > Thanks, Tom. Christian's post made me wonder if this was hiding in the
> > background somewhere.
> >
> 
> There is a footnote in the (incomplete) page
> 
> http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/ox-overview.html
> 
> that says:
> 
> ,----
> | (1) DocBook export, available in previous Org-mode versions, has not
> | currently been ported to the new exporter, however the new ox-texinfo
> | backend can generate DocBook format. Once file.texi is created via
> | ox-texinfo, simply execute:
> | 
> | makeinfo --docbook file.texi
> `----
> 
> I wonder if that will meet the OP's requirements.
> 

Hi, Nick,

Yes, I did see that, and I did succeed in creating a DocBook file by
exporting to texi and then converting with makeinfo. It's a bit
unwieldy, but it will do in a pinch. I'm not sure how this compares with
pandoc.

I'd really like to be able to set things like doctype, etc.
automatically, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do that in the org
file so that it would survive getting passed through texi into docbook
xml (or pandoc, for that matter).

Thanks,
-pd



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