From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 15:33:10 +0300 Message-ID: <8334zr32ih.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83msyemjx8.fsf@gnu.org> <871qfpoij6.fsf@gnu.org> <87fs45ivyo.fsf@localhost> <87h6okga15.fsf@localhost> <87cyz61cbp.fsf@localhost> <87v8cuqtkr.fsf@localhost> <87sf7rsfpd.fsf@localhost> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="9552"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 14:34:23 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qdrji-00027R-Tc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 14:34:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdrjJ-0007Q7-29; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:33:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdrjE-0007Pe-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:33:53 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qdrjC-0004OG-TF; Wed, 06 Sep 2023 08:33:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=5uL9hkHbvHVJxNUkHnG16+u/XzLZHXyAtPuOszLP9fU=; b=qCz9gajbSkyl nBse6RLu+orGF4TqtwpgzxPnBmXVwFWLBkoa5voQaVfRX9IUdt8F7igHjRnFN+K68SKhljzr6X8tP BtO0lcDlcYsspYlyMfbDfflZyhmUDaXF+eNFjO6iBIx+X7kXRHaYoN+ubN3Zh9InuxNwJRkIOlhsw M1OeG1mwHqDpKDUV0wSt0i3vKUqAyp7LTFqjRFBN5+E3+uACZXC4Ske5dMWYtwkuW3NaP58sAZgSm 5sngw2K4UJkELPmjpY/FsF4zVZkeT5jPjnaykc2LfiVsdOIraMGsLoA5pLtSRfbram1PBT+/FoO4u ekVx4dlraP5HAdczIAOJCw==; In-Reply-To: <87sf7rsfpd.fsf@localhost> (message from Ihor Radchenko on Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:29:02 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:310191 Archived-At: > From: Ihor Radchenko > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:29:02 +0000 > > Richard Stallman writes: > > > I was hoping to see that same smoothness with Org mode -- that you > > specify the contents and Org mode owuld give youa manual with that > > contents. But instead, it seems that Org mode for a manual would > > specify Texinfo text to "export", and Org would generate Texinfo source > > to export which Texinfo could then convert convert into manuals as output. > > 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, 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.