org-export-generic.el – export org files to anything!

org-export-generic is basically a simple translation system that knows how to parse most of an org buffer and then add various formatting prefixes before and after each section type.

org-export-generic does its work by examining a property list stored in org-generic-alist. The pre-defined list currently includes a simple text exporter, a simple html exporter, a wikipedia exporter, an exporter to IETF internet-draft format, and a "demo" exporter which shows off all of the potential variables you can set.

You can also dynamically add property lists of your own using the org-set-generic-type function:

(org-set-generic-type
 "really-basic-text" 
 '(:file-suffix     ".txt"
   :key-binding     ?R
   :title-format "=== %s ===\n"
   :body-header-section-numbers t
   :body-header-section-number-format "%s) "
   :body-section-header-prefix  "\n"
   :body-section-header-suffix "\n"
   :body-line-format "  %s\n"
   :body-line-wrap   75
   ))

Note: Upper case key-bindings are reserved for your use. Lower case key bindings may conflict with future export-generic publications.

Then run org-export (ctrl-c ctrl-e) and select generic or run org-export-generic. You'll then be prompted with a list of export types to choose from, which will include your new type assigned to the key "R".

The property list items that can be used to format the output are defined in the table below.

Generally speaking, many parts are often divided into sections such that every parsed org thing frequently has 3 output specifiers too it. E.G., thing might have thing-prefix, thing-suffix and /thing-format. The first is a prefix placed before the output contents, the second is a suffix and thing-format is a format string where a %s is expected to be in it. There is a bit of redundancy with this triple combination but it provides flexibility (and in a few places, it's actually needed because the format string may be called multiple times and the prefix and suffix only once).