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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:261552 Archived-At: > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 7:18 AM > From: "yarnton--- via Emacs development discussions=2E" > To: "Gregory Heytings" > Cc: "Eli Zaretskii" , "Emacs Devel" , "Richard Stallman" , "Daniel Mart=C3=ADn" > Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor > > You could probably implement all these functions with a minimal layer on= top of org-mode, as it does support a lot of functionality already=2E Inte= roperability with docx and odt is harder unless you go down the rabbit hole= of getting close to feature parity with them=2E Otherwise it will be one-w= ay only=2E >=20 > IMHO, since Emacs is mostly plain text oriented it is going to be hard t= o go beyond supporting what Org already offers=2E Which is quite a lot: Hie= rarchical structure, different text formats, figures, tables, footnotes, me= tadata, very flexible exporting capabilities=2E=2E=2E >=20 > I would rather see Org getting more polished, friendlier and better docu= mented=2E It's pretty well known and it has the potential to attract more E= macs users because it offers some unique features=2E But people tend to get= scared away by it's apparent complexity=2E And frankly, the basics are rea= lly simple=2E I support the idea=2E Org-Mode is more appropriate=2E Then keep Standard= Emacs as a plain text programming editor=2E =20 > One area that could benefit from some improvements is reference manageme= nt=2E Org offers footnotes, which are not quite the same as proper first-cl= ass references or citations=2E >=20 >=20 >