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: Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:38:46 -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> <875yl9e7zm.fsf@gmail.com> <87wndmwrrk.fsf@gmail.com> <83r13uwha9.fsf@gnu.org> 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="39174"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 13 00:40:02 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 1o0WFW-0009yl-4l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 13 Jun 2022 00:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48746 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0WFU-0006lw-Q7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:40:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46532) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0WEJ-0004gR-3Q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:38:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:54774) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0WEI-00065L-OP; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:38:46 -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=bhh8z0OhUXPw5NDTNiFeKBFYbU71rJw56+wwD6llEqc=; b=CcG9lCff7/+x Kaqu5a02AfoQtmu39ytuot7JTYwwJdH9/AaKdei9PfgA4bqIokBaTXbz5qKuxvTBrC+AK/v5DyBmi KuEkIw7Cgt0zcZPJC2IpzOQSGYapHtqqxOI8IlpkwmJrPV5ydg1JdeoLdO4ndvE14YLscYnFAkHBX bS4VCG59zalOeNj8dHqvx3DVmM32ky3XkZJwkMdeOjseMP4VTLJ8K5ovRuJRgUGo3TWHkoWinAzHK n3iAe5fiaQ4/y2OfZ9f/ZtOqZJUpiV+NkQHMFFGN+KCPdZn2xqy9UKL4iHJQfMZtUkdSNG8RT+Sxn m42WbafMeAISGFu+Ec7hqA==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o0WEI-0004x2-3z; Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:38:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83r13uwha9.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sun, 12 Jun 2022 09:02:38 +0300) 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:291108 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. ]]] > The main problem with Texinfo that I'm aware of is its reliance on TeX > for the printed output formats (PDF, PS, etc.). Many restrictions in > Texinfo come from the fact that something is impossible to implement > in TeX. I am not sure which kind of "something" this refers to. Formatting capabilities? Input syntax? Since we want to take advantage of TeX to make beautiful printed manuals, we will be limited to TeX's formatting capabilities. But I think they are more powerful than anything else. The limitations of TeX's parser are things we could avoid, if we didn't have TeX directly read the texinfo source code. -- 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)