Re: [Orgmode] Footnotes and org-export, revisited

[Jörg Hagmann]

> 5.  A final solution (which might also gain other advantages) could be
> to begin to facilitate an org-export mode to Pandoc's native
> plain-text syntax (an extension of Markdown).[7] Pandoc is a robust
> Haskell engine to convert between plain text formats.  This would add
> a step to org-mode export, but that one step could potentially allow
> conversion into the wide range of formats that Pandoc supports
> (markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, ConTeXt, RTF, DocBook XML,
> OpenDocument XML, ODT, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, groff man pages,
> and S5 HTML slide shows). Pandoc's syntax model already has a lot in
> common with org's.  (Both allow LaTeX pass-through, for example).  I
> don't know if such an export would meet the effort vs. value trade
> off, but I suggest it might.
>   
I would welcome an org-export mode to Pandoc's markdown. I'm currently 
using markdown --> Pandoc for generating pdfs via ConTeXt and editable 
documents for people using word processors. An org-export mode to 
markdown would definitely make org the dominating mode for me.

Cheers, Jörg

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