Hello,
It sure looks interesting.
Here are a few comment about org-e-man.el.
1. Please do not leave trailing parenthesis (i.e at line 228).
2. You can remove every `declare-function'. You only need to
(require 'org-export)
in the file header, actually.
3. You can remove `org-e-man-babel-language-alist' variable and
`org-e-man--guess-babel-language' function since they are specific to
the "babel" LaTeX package.
4. For the same reason, you can remove `org-e-man--guess-inputenc'
("inputenc" LaTeX package).
5. Do you really need something as complicated as `org-e-man-classes'?
It is a chore to use in `e-latex' but is tolerated since it allows
for much configurability, but in a man exporter, I doubt it is worth
introducing it. Indeed, I don't think there are much packages and
section configurations to play with.
6. You shouldn't ignore drawers. Simply return their contents with no
additional syntax. I.e.
(defun org-e-man-drawer (drawer contents info)
"Blah..."
contents)
In that case, you can safely remove unused
`org-e-man-format-drawer-function' variable.
7. Something is wrong in `org-e-man-entity'. There is no `:man' format
for entities. You can choose among `:latex', `ascii', `:html',
`:latin1' or `:utf-8'.
8. Since there is no image support in man, you can remove unused
variables `org-e-man-image-default-option',
`org-e-man-default-figure-position', `org-e-man-inline-image-rules'.
9. `org-e-man--make-option-string' looks unused too. You may remove it.
10. Line 1743: (if (not (null attr-item))...) => (if attr-item ...)
11. I think that you can hard-code text markup macros and remove
`org-e-man-text-markup-alist'. It will simplify code in
`org-e-man--text-markup'.
12. Optionally, `org-e-man-headline' can probably be simplified a lot
too. I imagine that someone using the man exporter doesn't expect
much configuration for headlines.
13. In `org-e-man-plain-list', it looks like you can simply return
contents (as for drawers) and remove everything else. Same for
special blocks. Just return contents.
By the way (format "%s" contents) is exactly `contents' since this
argument is always a string.
14. In general, try to remove as much unused stuff as possible.
Thank you for your work,
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
