> I'm toying with an idea of writing my own exporter backend, based on the > html one. My question is: what should I read to learn how to do this? > I am aware of http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/ox-overview.html, but > ox-\(element-\)?docstrings look a bit scary. I thought that reading > the source code of some existing backend alongside the docstrings might > be helpful. Am I right? Do you have any suggestions as to which one to > choose first? How did the authors of existing backends start learning > how to do that, and do they have any tips for their younger colleague;)?
I'm also very much in the inexperienced camp, but I did find that reading though a derived exporter (I read the ox-md.el) was useful. Between that and asking couple of questions on this mailing list, I was able to write the minimal exporter I needed. Best, Josiah
