Re: How to export to the simplest possible HTML?

[Thomas Redelberger]

Dear Marcin and everybody,

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

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


I had coded a derived HTML 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 approach.

Best regards
Thomas


On 2023-05-30, at 20:48, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> 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!