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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU ELPA visibility
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:42:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbofhfqld.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878valgb6v.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:40:48 +0530")

>> I.e. we need to replace the READMEs with more structured files which
>> can be easily turned into acceptable HTML (no need to be fancy, here)
>> as well as easy to render acceptably in Emacs (extra bonus points if
>> that same format can end up being used as a replacement for Info ;-).
> Org can be exported to HTML, Plain text (ASCII) and texi.

So far, Org, ReST, Markdown, and Texinfo sound like the best
options, indeed.

Texinfo requires an extra step (generate Info) before rendering in Emacs
but has the advantage that this rendering already exists and that
Texinfo is the standard GNU documentation format.  It has its
weaknesses, but it's a tool we know (i.e. which is why we already know
its weaknesses).

I'd be interested to see some sample rendering of Markdown, Org, and ReST
both in HTML and inside Emacs, for comparison.


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-01 12:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-25 19:30 GNU ELPA visibility Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 20:04 ` Jeremiah Dodds
2012-10-25 20:18   ` Drew Adams
2012-10-26  7:29   ` Tassilo Horn
2012-10-27  6:33     ` Bastien
2012-10-26  4:22 ` Jambunathan K
2012-10-27  6:39   ` Bastien
2012-11-01  4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-11-01  5:10   ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-01  5:13     ` chad
2012-11-01  5:18       ` Jambunathan K
2012-11-01 12:42     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2012-11-02  7:12       ` Daniel Hackney
2012-11-02  7:48         ` Jorgen Schaefer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-10-25 19:58 Dmitry Gutov
2012-10-25 21:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 21:23 Dmitry Gutov
2012-10-25 21:34 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-25 21:47   ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-10-25 21:52     ` Drew Adams
2012-10-26  1:37     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-25 21:48 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2012-10-25 22:14 Dmitry Gutov
2012-10-25 22:47 ` Jorgen Schaefer
2012-10-26 16:10 Dmitry Gutov
2012-10-26 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-26 18:53   ` chad
2012-10-26 19:11     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-10-27  5:18 ` Chong Yidong
2012-10-27 11:26   ` Dmitry Gutov
2012-10-28 16:29 Daniel Hackney
2012-10-28 16:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-10-28 18:23   ` Andreas Schwab
2012-10-28 20:26 Dmitry Gutov
2012-11-02 18:47 Dmitry Gutov

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