Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:43:55 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I think I need to clarify. This is how export to info works _now_.
> >> However, nothing stops us from implementing direct export org->info
> >> without intermediate org->texi step. Someone just needs to do this job.
> >
> > Unless the implementation will somehow invoke texi2any under the hood,
> > this would mean a separate implementation of texi2any in Emacs Lisp,
> 
> Yes. We already have org2pdf, org2ascii, org2html, but not org2info.
> 
> > something that I don't recommend: it will need to play a constant
> > catchup game with the Texinfo development, and it will be probably
> > quite slow.
> 
> I am not sure about catchup game. Unless Texinfo drastically changes the
> output format, we can simply provide default settings to replicate the
> Texinfo look of the produced html/pdf/plaintext/info files.

Not the output format, but the language: new directives and sometimes
markup are added with every release of Texinfo.  Just read their NEWS
file.

> As for being slow, it is already not the case. Last time we discussed
> Org export being slow, I have managed to speed things up on par with
> Texinfo timings on Org manual.

That was for Org-to-Texinfo conversion.  Here we are talking about
Org-to-Info, which is much more work.