Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Robert Pluim]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

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>   > > Take a look at enriched.el (and etc/enriched.txt as the demonstration
>   > > of its capabilities): we already have the capability for serializing
>   > > this, had it for many years.
>
>   > That's fine so long as you have a file you want to edit _only_ with 
>   > Emacs. Files that need to be understood by other tools would need 
>   > information about indentation adjustment included in some compatible way 
>   > (maybe a comment), but since other tools would know nothing of this 
>   > information, it would go out of date. Requiring that people edit a 
>   > source file only with Emacs is not realistic.
>
> I agree.  One of the features we will want
> is to make Emacs able to read and write ODT format and RTF,
> even if at first it can only handle subsets of their features.

I'm still not clear on the goals here, and this makes things even less
clear. As others have mentioned, LibreOffice exists, so why does Emacs
need to be able to read and write ODT? [1]

Robert
Footnotes: 
[1]  Note that you can already indirectly write to ODT if you start
with org and use an exporter