From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eric S. Raymond" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:47:33 -0500 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20141210084733.GA9108@thyrsus.com> References: <87wq66ufyt.fsf@wanadoo.es> <87tx18vl0v.fsf@dod.no> <87iohnvh3m.fsf@dod.no> <877fy3lmm4.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <877fy3vcw4.fsf@dod.no> <87h9x4bnzk.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> <21640.804.898310.476932@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> Reply-To: esr@thyrsus.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1418201513 2872 80.91.229.3 (10 Dec 2014 08:51:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 08:51:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Karl Fogel , Steinar Bang , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ulrich Mueller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 09:51:45 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyczo-0000fk-IV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 09:51:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43994 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyczo-0002MD-4i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:51:44 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37727) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XycwL-0005MP-K3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:48:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XycwH-0003NW-9I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:48:09 -0500 Original-Received: from static-71-162-243-5.phlapa.fios.verizon.net ([71.162.243.5]:55828 helo=snark.thyrsus.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XycwH-0003NJ-3m; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:48:05 -0500 Original-Received: by snark.thyrsus.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0325FC008B; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 03:47:34 -0500 (EST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21640.804.898310.476932@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 71.162.243.5 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:179631 Archived-At: Ulrich Mueller : > >>>>> On Tue, 09 Dec 2014, Karl Fogel wrote: > > > There is a general solution to this problem -- Pandoc, the > > "universal document converter". http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ > > > Pandoc supports Org as an input format (and output too, though we > > don't need that here). Pandoc is free software (GPL v2 or later). > > In my experience Pandoc has its limitations. In the cases where I have > used it to convert from LaTeX to other formats like HTML or Mediawiki, > many things broke and the output required massive manual reworking. > My conclusion was that I could use it as a starting point for a > one-shot conversion, but that it would be unsuitable for regular > automatic conversions. > > Ulrich I agree. These problems are real, and relate not only to quality of implementation but to weaknesses in Markdown. -- Eric S. Raymond