Re: OrgmodeOrg-export-generic and wikis...

[Wes Hardaker <wjhns209@hardakers.net>]

>>>>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:38:47 -0500, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman@sift.info> said:

RG> 1. Would it be reasonable to move the documentation for
RG> org-export-generic into the contrib/ directory of org-mode?  It
RG> seems ... suboptimal to have this package be maintained in the org
RG> git repo, but its documentation in the worg git repo.  At least from
RG> my PoV this raises the bar for keeping the documentation up-to-date
RG> and synchronized to a pretty high level.

I'll let Carsten answer questions like that ;-)

RG> 2. Is the existing "handle each line separately" algorithm going to
RG> permit us to handle faces correctly?  Seems like we'll need a lot of
RG> hair to handle, e.g., a phrase in italics that straddles a line-break,
RG> won't we?

Well, that's a good question and one I don't have a great answer for.
We could switch the parser to be multi-line based regexp matches but I
suspect the complexity of when to stop those regexps will get rather
harry too!
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