From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package) Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:31:59 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87h74ztshe.fsf@gmx.de> <871qw31ois.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735gj4ceo.fsf@gnu.org> <87ee038ipt.fsf@gmx.de> <87o7z61v59.fsf@gmail.com> <87bkv527p5.fsf@gmail.com> <835yld93w7.fsf@gnu.org> <877d5t0yrn.fsf@gmail.com> <87r140yuof.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14821"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Tim Cross Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 10 00:37:40 2022 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 1nzQma-0003gt-As for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 10 Jun 2022 00:37:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44672 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzQmZ-0000XA-9G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:37:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:40662) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzQh8-0003xK-Ba for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:32:03 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzQh5-0002q1-Dg; Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:32:01 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=ig8VenKKZ+WCx7SUsdV9iUz4NbD8Ns+qHYatzBXhtdw=; b=j3guBDredY8I YVUyELeOd0dlomAKlw39E8fU1xw/WsFVTV7rCG21Gc3pVIFeV7zeZxH1Nc7Fz5lXv8DUs6y7jubuE c6HcAbs0811oI8uaXb8RQ/8VpuQbSXlm5zSMz9+UWZcBfOvGBjQvEBvSx4SEhTU4EHR+E0y5wVMgf IbeES++u0h2y96GJh2/zPSdjIKDujnGgu9mAndHLOihRmSd5EHaaDYbdiVbhjkn9MPxcQKeN2vMzX oj6rLiqWNO8Wt39LAn34zGcxfWdjrgt0FWtOMWWWryFW5uyMKVASqQVqmEug/Np6g/cx7ap/hs+z0 ATqXCo4tiwNtWngunaDPug==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nzQh5-0001OB-22; Thu, 09 Jun 2022 18:31:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87r140yuof.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Tim Cross on Wed, 08 Jun 2022 08:10:28 +1000) 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" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:290982 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] If we are going to redesign Org mode syntax, can we please add room for extensibility so that an extension of Org mode syntax could have all the features of Texinfo? If the new syntax can express all the distinctions that Texinfo can already express, that would make it possible to switch to it for our documentation sources. This needs to include conversion into some variant of TeX syntax so that we can generate high-quality printed manuals through TeX. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)