Implement export functionality to other formats

[jceb]

Implement export functionality to other formats

[jceb]

It's half-way done. liborgmode has been implemented. The export functionality will be implemented in the tool "orgcmd".

[sotte]

orgmode offers quite a few export formats. Perhaps it would be better to reuse orgmodes capabilities instead of implementing everything again. It would be a lot of stuff to maintain.

See http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html for an overview of the export formats.

It is fairly easy to call orgmodes export from within vim:

    cmd = "!emacs -nw --batch --visit=%:p --funcall=org-export-as-pdf"
    vim.command(cmd)

[jceb]

Sounds good. A big disadvantage is of course the dependency to emacs. Nevertheless it would be good to implement it.

[fanglingsu]

I would also prefer to get the exportformats implemented in orgcmd. I don't think there are many vim users that like to install emacs.

[jceb]

@fanglingsu: Don't worry. I don't consider dropping the plans for orgcmd. Export via emacs is just a step in between.

[sotte]

Do you know pandoc? It can convert documents in quite a few formats. Might be interesting...

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

[jceb]

Sounds interesting. I'll have a look at it.

[erahhal]

I'd like to export to ODT. What is required to make that happen? potentially willing to contribute depending on the level of effort.

[suliveevil]

Pandoc is great, hope vim-orgmode could use pandoc to convert and export org files as other formats.