org: Adding export back-ends
A.4 Adding export back-ends
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Org 8.0 comes with a completely rewritten export engine which makes it
easy to write new export back-ends, either from scratch, or from
deriving them from existing ones.
Your two entry points are respectively ‘org-export-define-backend’
and ‘org-export-define-derived-backend’. To grok these functions, you
should first have a look at ‘ox-latex.el’ (for how to define a new
back-end from scratch) and ‘ox-beamer.el’ (for how to derive a new
back-end from an existing one.
When creating a new back-end from scratch, the basic idea is to set
the name of the back-end (as a symbol) and an an alist of elements and
export functions. On top of this, you will need to set additional
keywords like ‘:menu-entry’ (to display the back-end in the export
dispatcher), ‘:export-block’ (to specify what blocks should not be
exported by this back-end), and ‘:options-alist’ (to let the user set
export options that are specific to this back-end.)
Deriving a new back-end is similar, except that you need to set
‘:translate-alist’ to an alist of export functions that should be used
instead of the parent back-end functions.
For a complete reference documentation, see the Org Export Reference
on Worg (http://orgmode.org/worg/dev/org-export-reference.html).
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