From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Philip Chan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RTF for emacs Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 20:58:42 -0400 Message-ID: <87tx8gf0vx.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> References: <87fvk012fi.fsf@debian.uxu> <8761kw58n4.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400893187 13506 80.91.229.3 (24 May 2014 00:59:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 00:59:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 24 02:59:41 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo0JJ-0000ly-81 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 May 2014 02:59:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46205 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo0JI-0004MB-SE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:59:40 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33323) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo0J3-0004Lq-0m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:59:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo0Ix-00047n-QG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:59:24 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47723) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo0Ix-00046v-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 20:59:19 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo0Iv-0008ML-Nh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2014 02:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from bas10-toronto01-1096790248.dsl.bell.ca ([65.95.176.232]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 02:59:17 +0200 Original-Received: from cpchan by bas10-toronto01-1096790248.dsl.bell.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 24 May 2014 02:59:17 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bas10-toronto01-1096790248.dsl.bell.ca X-Face: G; Z,`sm>)4t4LB/GUrgH$W`!AmfHMj,LG)Z}X0ax@s9:0>0)B&@vcm{v-le)wng)?|o]D\Z}0:6X User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:jhX7gNm1ti9m6trBpnoQh85Debs= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:97802 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Robert Thorpe writes: Hi Robert: > What about writing a letter to your bank? Or writing a short technical > document that has to include diagrams? Plain text can't really do these > things. Of course is can with a markup language. > Latex can do these things, but it's complicated. Whenever I need to > use Latex I have to look at lots of examples from the internet or the > last time I used it. Since I never write large reports using Latex > it's syntax never sticks in my head. Org-mode[1] is your answer. It can do everything you listed with a simple markup language. Charles Footnotes:=20 [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Org-mode http://orgmode.org/ =20=20=20=20 =2D-=20 "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." (Linus Torvalds about the superiority of Linux on the Amsterdam Linux Symposium) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlN/7swACgkQ3epPyyKbwPb0NACfQGc+00NROc0kzDiRp7l25KyI 7IsAniim2yPB/ZCThYc5nV/TPPN1fnZx =x7Aj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--