Re: Org Mode Documentation Patch

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:08:35 +0000
> From: "Ben Phipathananunth" <address@hidden>
> 
> I've begun reading the Org Mode manual, and noticed that the wording
> in some places could be improved (so far I've read up to Section 4.8).
> I've attached my patch.  Some of the more drastic changes:
> 
> - Changed all occurrences of "the cursor" to "point", I thought the
>   inconsistency was confusing, especially since the Emacs manual
>   maintains usage of "point" throughout, so too should the Org Mode
>   manual.
> 
> I have a couple of questions regarding the Org Mode manual and
> submitting patches:
> 
> Section 4.6 "Link abbreviations" in the Org Mode manual link to
> websites that have and/or promote non-free software.  The URLs are
> used to illustrate link abbreviations in Org Mode, but I suppose this
> was purely coincidental because long URLs to websites such as
> gnu.org/some/long/path could be used instead.  Would it be appropriate
> to change the examples in a later patch?
> 
> When the PDF version of the Org Mode manual is generated with "make
> docs", the footnotes (3 and 4) around Section 4.3 are incorrectly
> indented, can anyone reproduce this?  What is causing it?
> 
> Should I submit my patches as smaller ones as I read sections of the
> manual or bulk them together into a larger patch, or is it just a
> matter of preference?

Please submit this to Org developers first, as the manual's master
copy is maintained there.  (I think they are moving towards using Org
format for the manual source anyway, so submitting patches in Texinfo
will not be useful.)

Thanks.