12.2 Export back-ends

An export back-end is a library that translates Org syntax into a foreign format. An export format is not available until the proper back-end has been loaded.

By default, the following four back-ends are loaded: ascii, html, icalendar and latex. It is possible to add more (or remove some) by customizing org-export-backends.

Built-in back-ends include:

• ascii (ASCII format)
• beamer (LaTeX Beamer format)
• html (HTML format)
• icalendar (iCalendar format)
• latex (LaTeX format)
• man (Man page format)
• md (Markdown format)
• odt (OpenDocument Text format)
• org (Org format)
• texinfo (Texinfo format)

Other back-ends might be found in the contrib/ directory (see Installation).