Support for org-mode

[hummuscience]

When thinking about executable documents, aside from jupyter notebooks, org-mode pops to mind.

org-mode is an emacs mode that allows writing simple text documents with code blocks (from any language), execute them, and embed the results in the same file. John Kitchin (https://github.com/jkitchin) and his group have used org-mode with this functionality to write and publish more than 20 papers (http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/scimax).

There are already well established (built in) converters to latex and html. Additionally, using pandoc (which supports org-mode), the documents can be converted to a myriad of other outputs.

Maybe it would be a good addition to the list.

[nokome]

Thanks for the suggestion @Cumol, it's a good one.

As you say, given that Pandoc supports Org mode, it shouldn't be too time consuming, and I'm tempted to start a PR to add a orgmode codec. However, at this stage I think we need to focus on improving the existing codecs and documentation, for a 1.0 release, before adding new ones.

Having said that, if you or anyone else wanted to start a PR that adds it, I'd be more than happy to help out 🙂

[tlestang]

As @Cumol mentioned org-mode (particularly the subset of org-mode functionalities known as org-babel) can be powerful way to write and export executable documents, making it a great tool for e.g. reproducible research and the writing of reports/articles.
In my opinion the main advantages of org-mode are:

• It's plain text.
• It supports a large variety of languages (through a mix of both built-in and contributed supports), in the same document.

It would be great to see org-mode among the supported formats!

[nokome]

Hi @Cumol and @tlestang. I'd be happy to add a org codec, and don't think it would take too long. But I'm not familiar with org mode, so if I do spend the time adding that, would you be able to help test it out and refine it?

[hummuscience]

@nokome yes, just let us know what needs to be done :)

[tlestang]

Sure, very happy to help!

[nokome]

I've transferred this issue from encoda to here, which is now the repo that it could be implemented in. Timing of this transfer is related to a new request for org mode support in #1483.