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Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README whi
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Christopher Dimech |
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Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package) |
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Sun, 12 Jun 2022 06:53:02 +0200 |
> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:42 PM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Tim Cross" <theophilusx@gmail.com>
> Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README
> while installing package)
>
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> > Making org mode syntax equivalent to texinfo syntax seems like a
> > mistake to me.
>
> If this succeeds, it would be an important advance for the GNU system.
> We would replace Texinfo with a much cleaner system, easier to use and
> more maintainable. Not solely for Emacs, but for ALL our
> documentation!
>
> The original idea was to have a light weight syntax which
> > is easyh to learn, not create a clone of texinfo. Besides, I suspect it
> > would be very difficult to maintain backwards compatibility.
>
> These are real concerns, but they are not real certainties. If we look
> for solutions, we may find good ones.
>
> I hope someone will give it a try.
An important aspect moving forward is to permit the use of latex
rather than tex.
> One of Texinfo's crucial features is a wide range of semantic markup
> constructs, each of which can generate different output depending on
> the output format. For instance, Texinfo has @var, @emph and @dfn,
> all of which generate italics in printed output, but they differ in
> what they generate for other output formats. There are probably 15
> other such constructs.
>
> These constructs make it possible to carry out our documentation style
> constructs.
>
> Does Org format have the ability to make all these distinctions?
> If not, I suspect that the Org mode documentation isn't following
> all our style conventions for documentation.
>
> There is nothing fundamentally hard about supporting these
> distinctions. Can someone please examine which ones Org supports and
> which ones not, and propose exensions for the ones not yet supported?
>
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- Re: Org mode and Emacs, (continued)
- Re: Org mode and Emacs, Tim Cross, 2022/06/11
- Re: Org mode and Emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/12
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Tim Cross, 2022/06/11
- Re: Org mode and Emacs, T.V Raman, 2022/06/11
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/12
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Richard Stallman, 2022/06/12
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/12
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package),
Christopher Dimech <=
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/10
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Akib Azmain Turja, 2022/06/10
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/08
- Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package), Stefan Kangas, 2022/06/08
- Re: Org mode and Emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2022/06/08
- Re: Org mode and Emacs, Ihor Radchenko, 2022/06/08
- Re: Org mode and Emacs, Richard Stallman, 2022/06/12
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Tim Cross, 2022/06/07
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, chad, 2022/06/08
- Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package, Alan Mackenzie, 2022/06/06