How to get all possible Rules and Elements of Functions like ExportString

Question

Here are some $ExportFormats.

I'd like to know which one has some options or elements of Import and Export.

 $ExportFormats
(* {3DS,ACO,AIFF,AU,AVI,Base64,Binary,Bit,BMP,Byte,BYU,BZIP2,C,CDF,Character16,
     Character8,Complex128,Complex256,Complex64,CSV,CUR,DICOM,DIF,DIMACS,DOT,DXF,
     EMF,EPS,ExpressionML,FASTA,FASTQ,FCS,FITS,FLAC,FLV,GIF,Graph6,Graphlet,GraphML,
     GXL,GZIP,HarwellBoeing,HDF,HDF5,HTML,ICNS,ICO,Integer128,Integer16,Integer24,
     Integer32,Integer64,Integer8,JPEG,JPEG2000,JSON,JVX,KML,LEDA,List,LWO,MAT,
     MathML,Maya,MGF,MIDI,MOL,MOL2,MTX,MX,NASACDF,NB,NetCDF,NEXUS,NOFF,OBJ,OFF,
     Package,Pajek,PBM,PCX,PDB,PDF,PGM,PLY,PNG,PNM,POV,PPM,PXR,QuickTime,RawBitmap,
     Real128,Real32,Real64,RIB,RTF,SCT,SDF,SND,Sparse6,STL,String,SurferGrid,SVG,SWF,
     Table,TAR,TerminatedString,TeX,Text,TGA,TGF,TIFF,TSV,UnsignedInteger128,
     UnsignedInteger16,UnsignedInteger24,UnsignedInteger32,UnsignedInteger64,
     UnsignedInteger8,UUE,VideoFrames,VRML,VTK,WAV,Wave64,WDX,WMF,X3D,XBM,XHTML,
     XHTMLMathML,XLS,XLSX,XML,XYZ,ZIP,ZPR} *)

 ExportString[expr, "format"]

generates a string corresponding to expr exported in the specified format.

 ExportString[rules, {"format", "Rules"}]

gives explicit rules for different elements of the data to be exported.

 ExportString[exprs, elems]

generates a string by treating exprs as elements specified by elems.

example

Tex and HTML have some rules

 ExportString[something, "Tex", someRules]
ExportString[something, "HTML", "FullDocument" -> False]

when in the ref/ExportString page, we cannot find more informations about these Rules and Elements.

Though in ref/format/TEX we can find the options of Exporting Tex, as well as in ref/format/HTML

So how to get all these options and elements something like Options[] or Names[] You know even for some frequently used formats I cannot memorize all things. Sometimes searched in Help Pages just to know one OptionName for spelling purpose.

For instance: "Plaintext" or "PlainText" ? "Tex" or "TeX"? They are string, and not in command completion.

Maybe we can add them to command completion?

And further can we add some options to some build-in functions?

Since many of the formats are not related to one another at all, I'm not sure how meaningful it is to ask for all of the possible options for every one. Why not just look at the documentation for the format(s) that you're interested in? — Oleksandr R., Jun 12 '13 at 11:24
@OleksandrR. Even for some frequently used formats like HTML and Tex, I've looked at the documentation for many times, if there is one function, I can get the information quickly that would be better. — HyperGroups, Jun 12 '13 at 11:31
@OleksandrR. One reason, I'd like the Command Completion for some string option name if possible. Otherwise one memo table is helpful for me to spell the string option names correctly. — HyperGroups, Jun 12 '13 at 12:02

How to get all possible Rules and Elements of Functions like ExportString

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