From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:23:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87leuca7v7.fsf@disroot.org> <87czfopmsd.fsf@gnu.org> <87h74ztshe.fsf@gmx.de> <871qw31ois.fsf@yahoo.com> <8735gj4ceo.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfojz63r.fsf@yahoo.com> <87h74z5nio.fsf@localhost> <87ilpf45mo.fsf@disroot.org> <87pmjnumzg.fsf@posteo.net> <877d5ut6z6.fsf@posteo.net> <87o7yink44.fsf@posteo.net> <87letjzppl.fsf@posteo.net> <87letjinbr.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5504"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: Akib Azmain Turja , Ihor Radchenko , Po Lu , Tassilo Horn , Michael Albinus , Alan Mackenzie , Stefan Kangas , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 26 17:24:38 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 1o5U7q-0001CG-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 17:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51932 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5U7o-0003cd-II for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46614) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5U74-0002wM-NO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:23:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca ([132.204.25.50]:62917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1o5U72-0007TI-Au; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id 8818A805C8; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:23:46 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (unknown [172.31.2.1]) by pmg2.iro.umontreal.ca (Proxmox) with ESMTP id C995280626; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:23:44 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=iro.umontreal.ca; s=mail; t=1656257024; bh=d0SQGxFt6Lb3VsjpKN8Im98fEZrW0eLbYu1aLxgOE/o=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=FK/XRGhjnvEQ/MoNn2SA0vbZJFmG1ekRbECl40pZWolNUHbK64Ph0h7sRk6zrbCuA UW4+qDLq5A8Cnyaht0F/29nRw9Cb5HGxPo2Q+fqwOKE6MJ/5EAETyXgRT0uIMLyuml 8jMRnrP/IK7Ssh54eV1HWfczgsHN/WRmd/B5NjTmu26UEULhw/sPfkJabc10xsYZns 0ZfrHsioxuaaxwxc/PKG44ZOsc8CxNADfmPCCtUq+tmOB8roeUNYF1BMtHHmtjGtq4 0fpdi1PHZibJSUfY2MVJBsUztbmyZGKcfKrrv3+/fiBd1HR1xq4qxAWmcM04X0IO2q 34PxajddYCf7A== Original-Received: from alfajor (165.63.10.93.rev.sfr.net [93.10.63.165]) by mail01.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 772A0120317; Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:23:43 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87letjinbr.fsf@posteo.net> (Philip Kaludercic's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2022 13:08:56 +0000") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=132.204.25.50; envelope-from=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca; helo=mailscanner.iro.umontreal.ca X-Spam_score_int: -42 X-Spam_score: -4.3 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:291633 Archived-At: >> FWIW I find this particular conversion made things overall worse :-( > Hmm, what in particular? I didn't like the two spaces after the "bullets" and more importantly the information about what is a title was completely lost. > As I said it doesn't have to be this specific formatting. Sure, I just mentioned it because I found it rather odd to return a worse result than the identity function. > It could also just be cleaned up markdown, moving links below > paragraphs, wrapping lines and stuff like that. Then again, this can (should?) be applied to the source directly. Don't get me wrong: I'm definitely not opposed to rendering Markdown to plain text. I've seen a fair bit of "GFM" files that are not great to read as plain text, so there is clearly room for improvement. Maybe throwing out the badges would be a good first step ;-) Stefan