From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: want a file format easily edited and read by emacs that allows (multiple) pictures to be included Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:35:14 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <86vahig499.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tvx99t3y.fsf@gmail.com> <87indo7s7o.fsf@mbork.pl> <87d13u7qvo.fsf@mbork.pl> <86shcqg2a7.fsf@zoho.com> <878teh7o8a.fsf@mbork.pl> <86bmjdd8ey.fsf@zoho.com> <86vahjgul3.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1512646833 14583 195.159.176.226 (7 Dec 2017 11:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2017 11:40:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 07 12:40:29 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eMuXU-0003S5-MA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 12:40:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60094 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eMuXT-0008QD-O6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Dec 2017 06:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ki1qNFiEgsPs0GmXn3Dk/A.user.gioia.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:s9JP62wmts3/QlogjaXQp1L7zBk= X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:221174 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:115286 Archived-At: Eric S Fraga wrote: > I would have an example block first which > allows the editing of the ascii drawing and > then an nroff src block (although there is > currently no actual support for nroff but > trivial to add) for the pic diagram. In general, if there is no support for *roff this is a very severe flaw in any IDE as groff is the markup and typesetting language of the man pages - a cornerstone of any Unix system. Even so, *roff is much more powerful and within the military-publicist complex some use it to layout commercial books like others would LaTeX. Here (my little project), nroff-mode isn't essential because I just use it (so far) to get some rudimentary font lock. For that, there are other modes that could serve just as well. nroff is closest tho conceptually as pic is part of the groff pipeline tool chain, as stated. But anyhow, if I were to do as you suggest, and I must confess I didn't understand any of it :), what is the first step? > Instead of an example block, you could use > artist mode which is (in org) associated with > ditaa if you wanted to use emacs fully to > draw manually. OK, how do I do that? I.e., how do I get into that mode? -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573