Re: How to export to the simplest possible HTML?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2023-05-30, at 17:32, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 30/05/2023 10:47, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
>> since I'm going to
>> call my exporting function in a loop over many elements.  I tried
>> (org-export-with-backend 'html (org-element-at-point (point)))
>
> There is `org-export-string-as', but likely it is not suitable for
> you. My guess is that you are going to export headings (blog posts) to
> separate html files.

Correct, dear Holmes. ;-)

>> This is /italic/.
>> can become e.g.
>> This is <span class="emphasize">italic</span>.
>
> I am curious whether <em> is more friendly to screen readers
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/em

Good point.  You're right, I'll probably go with `<em>' then.  (The
reason I wanted `<span>' was that I wan't somewhat atypical styling,
namely letterspace.  But of course css magic can make `<em>' do this,
too.)

>> I'm considering writing a custom (derived) export backend, but maybe
>> that is an overkill?  Any ideas?
>
> I just have noticed
>
> (defcustom org-html-text-markup-alist
>   '((bold . "<b>%s</b>")
>     (code . "<code>%s</code>")
>     (italic . "<i>%s</i>")
>     (strike-through . "<del>%s</del>")
>     (underline . "<span class=\"underline\">%s</span>")
>     (verbatim . "<code>%s</code>"))
>   "Alist of HTML expressions to convert text markup.
>
> You may look into ox-html customizations such as
> (:html-doctype "HTML_DOCTYPE" nil org-html-doctype)
> (:html-html5-fancy nil "html5-fancy" org-html-html5-fancy)
>
> I have never tried ox-slimhtml:
> Laszlo Elo. ox-slimhtml. Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:48:27
> -0500. https://list.orgmode.org/41D2E10D-BCFF-4604-8417-B499514AF904@bald.cat

Ah, that looks interesting, too.

Thanks!

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