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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:291061 Archived-At: > Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2022 at 12:42 PM > From: "Richard Stallman" > To: "Tim Cross" > Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, acm@muc.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text R= EADME while installing package) > > [[[ 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. ]]] > > > Making org mode syntax equivalent to texinfo syntax seems like a > > mistake to me. > > If this succeeds, it would be an important advance for the GNU system. > We would replace Texinfo with a much cleaner system, easier to use and > more maintainable. Not solely for Emacs, but for ALL our > documentation! > > The original idea was to have a light weight syntax w= hich > > is easyh to learn, not create a clone of texinfo. Besides, I suspect= it > > would be very difficult to maintain backwards compatibility. > > These are real concerns, but they are not real certainties. If we look > for solutions, we may find good ones. > > I hope someone will give it a try. An important aspect moving forward is to permit the use of latex rather than tex. > One of Texinfo's crucial features is a wide range of semantic markup > constructs, each of which can generate different output depending on > the output format. For instance, Texinfo has @var, @emph and @dfn, > all of which generate italics in printed output, but they differ in > what they generate for other output formats. There are probably 15 > other such constructs. > > These constructs make it possible to carry out our documentation style > constructs. > > Does Org format have the ability to make all these distinctions? > If not, I suspect that the Org mode documentation isn't following > all our style conventions for documentation. > > There is nothing fundamentally hard about supporting these > distinctions. Can someone please examine which ones Org supports and > which ones not, and propose exensions for the ones not yet supported? > > -- > 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) > > > >