Re: "text mode" org mode

[Russell Adams]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 03:16:56PM +0200, Emanuel Berg via General discussions 
about Org-mode. wrote:
>     <incal> what I was looking for was a way to
>             typeset that had a less involved syntax
>             than LaTeX, to be able to create simple
>             PDFs, somewhere between plain text and
>             LaTeX. I asked on gmane.emacs.orgmode ,
>             if they cannot solve it I'll just
>             `require' org, apply the org-mode's
>             font-lock to a text-mode buffer, and use
>             `org-latex-export-to-pdf'

Markdown, Asciidoc and Pandoc? There are many modern solutions to
exporting from text to pretty formats. Org just happens to have many
more features. If Org's core features (ie: outlining) are in your way,
perhaps one of those tools is more suitable?

Emacs has modes to fontify those formats too.

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