Re: ORG to POD translator

First, don't take these in any way as criticisms, but more as opportunities to make it process a larger subset of the org files out there.

I really like that it is simple and does not have prerequisites, so it is able to parse simple org files without a large footprint. That being said, my org files are very seldom simple, and I rely heavily on data within drawers, properties (node, tree, and global), among other things. Additionally, you have started the ball rolling with some actual code.

See lisp/org-exp.el, around line 2167 (barring any major updates) for a better pattern for the BEGIN_SRC line. It should allow an optional ':' after the BEGIN_SRC, and it is case insensitive.
A link to Org::Parser is probably in order :-)
Placing this code on something like github or the like might help to have more hands to help.

That is all that I have at the moment. Hopefully I will be able to take a closer look at it later. Thanks for starting this moving.

--MidLifeXis

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Re^2: ORG to POD translator by LanX (Saint) on Apr 07, 2011 at 17:08 UTC
Well I wouldn't mind if _you_ put it on git-hub! :) (this already took more time that I wanted to spend) I once started a thread "[emacs] converting perl regex into elisp regex", that could be of help for understanding the original format definition and parsing for updates in the lisp files. Those other features you want shouldn't be to difficult to parse, the question is what kind of POD should they produce? And how is the interface supposed to look like? If you have an agenda please define it. Cheers Rolf	[reply]
Re^3: ORG to POD translator by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Apr 07, 2011 at 22:33 UTC
The closest thing that I would have for an agenda would be to have a defined format for the org file itself. I would like to see the org community adopt a format for the org file, and a set of core functions (dealing with manipulating files, nodes, and properties) that behave in a defined fashion. Beyond that, it is basically up to the interface / library how it behaves based on the content of the file. Update: It looks like someone else may have some similar thoughts. --MidLifeXis	[reply]
Re^4: ORG to POD translator by LanX (Saint) on Apr 07, 2011 at 22:42 UTC
Thats quite abstract and overwhelming. IMHO formulating concrete use cases and goals is the first step for improvement. Producing POD is pretty concrete, and not far from being sufficiently done. What do you want to produce? Do you want to support all export formats emacs knows? I'm not such a heavy org-mode user like you are, you need to formulate your needs. Cheers Rolf	[reply]
Re^5: ORG to POD translator by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Apr 07, 2011 at 22:59 UTC
Re^3: ORG to POD translator by MidLifeXis (Monsignor) on Apr 07, 2011 at 23:12 UTC
I see in rereading this that my comment about the source for the emacs regexp was misunderstood. I did not mean to imply that all of the other block types contained in that regexp should be parsed, I was only commenting on the possible formats that a "BEGIN_SRC" block could take. The link to Org::Parser was a reference to the unlinked reference (now linked in a footnote), not an indicator that you should use it in this script. The suggestion for github was to make it more readily able to have patches applied to it. --MidLifeXis	[reply]
Re^4: ORG to POD translator by LanX (Saint) on Apr 08, 2011 at 01:15 UTC
OK, I created my first account on git hub: http://github.com/LanX/org2pod/ lets see were this will lead to. :) I think Org::Parser is already what you want, you might wanna have a look at this conversation: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/40388 Cheers Rolf	[reply]