Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Jose E. Marchesi]

>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 22:04:13 -0400
>> 
>> Please look at the list I sent yesterday.  (See below.)  Can Org mode
>> handle each of them, and generate from it the correct output for each
>> output format?
>> 
>>   > @code
>>   > @samo
>>   > @emph
>>   > @dfn
>>   > @var
>>   > @i
>>   > @url
>>   > @key
>>   > @kbd
>
> I think it can, but a typical Texinfo manual these days uses many more
> commands, not just those.  So this list is insufficient to judge these
> issues.  The actual list is much longer.

I think the point here is not just these particular marks, or some other
particular set.  It is that "markdown-style" formats, like org-mode, are
not very good supporting "inline" marking.

For inline marks, Texinfo uses a conventient generic and extensible
form: @NAME{CONTENT}.

"markdown-style" formats, on the contrary, generally support a closed
set of marks that use delimited based ad-hoc syntax, such as *foo*,
=foo=, "foo", `foo' and so on.

Block marks are usually supported well enough by these formats.  In the
case of org it would be #+BEGIN_WHATEVER end #+END_WHATEVER I suppose.