Re: [O] Making DocBook xml books from org mode?

[Peter Davis]

Joost Kremers <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Oct 02 2016, Peter Davis wrote:
>> When I try to export to docbook via pandoc (C-c C-e p d), I get
>>
>> Running pandoc with args: (-f org -t docbook5 -o 
>> /Users/peterdavis/Dropbox/HMH/my_file.dbk --parse-raw --mathjax --standalone 
>> /Users/peterdavis/Dropbox/HMH/my_file.tmp3362h9T.org)
>> Error occured.
>> pandoc: Unknown writer: docbook5
>>
>> Any guesses? Is there something additional I need to install in pandoc?
>
> The `docbook5' writer was added to Pandoc fairly recently, in version
> 1.17.1, released in June of this year.

Interesting. I just installed Pandoc on my Mac today with Homebrew, but
it claims to be 1.13.1. I'll try to find an update. Thanks.

> There's also a `docbook' writer,
> which has been part of Pandoc much longer and which outputs to (I
> assume) DocBook v4. So I suspect you either need to upgrade your Pandoc
> or make sure ox-pandoc sets the output format to `docbook'.

Well, I'm trying to output docbook5 anyway, so better to update my
installation.

Thank you.

-pd