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Re: Emacs as word processor
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T.V. Raman |
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Re: Emacs as word processor |
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Tue, 3 Dec 2013 08:32:33 -0800 |
In the long run, I believe all of markdown, org, rst and any
other form of text files with some level of embedded markup will
survive the test of time in the following sense:
1. Content created using these will survive and be usable 20
years from now even if those specific processors disappear.
I fail to hold the same confidence about word-processor formats,
even if those choose XML as a serialization -- though at one
point I hoped that XML would indeed help move that ball
forward.
See this article
"Fancy Color Paper Universe"
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/publications/colored-paper.html
(it's only 2 pages) thatI wrote in 2000. Nearly
15 years later, the only post-script I would add is that much to
my disappointment, the Web too has turned into one more fancy
colored piece of paper.
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On 12/3/13, Jambunathan K <address@hidden> wrote:
> René Kyllingstad <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> What about making some version of markdown the storage format?
>
> I suppose you aren't a Org-mode user or you feel that markdown is
> superior (for what values of superior?) to Org-mode.
>
> Org-mode, is the de-facto markup format for Emacs users. Emacs has
> rst.el. Vanilla Emacs doesn't have font-lock support for markdown. So
> the existing support infrastructure surrouding Org-mode markup is much
> far ahead of markdown.
>
> ps: I am not opposed to markdown code. Given a choice, Org-mode should
> get priority treatment.
>
>