Re: [ELPA] New package: tchanges, Re: [ELPA] New package: tchanges

[James Thomas <jimjoe@gmx.net>]

Hi,

Richard Stallman wrote:

>   > Here's a short screencast (.gif) demonstrating most of the
>   > features:
>
>   >   https://codeberg.org/attachments/5096c13b-ff1f-47f6-8741-f3d955e34211
>
> This looks intersting, so I looked at that gif.
> But I could not follow what was going on. The text in the gif is too
> small for me to read, and I did not know what inputs were were causing
> the output.

Touche. I'd made an improved version based on Philip's feedback:

  https://codeberg.org/attachments/d9ce4f60-0acc-4316-ae45-dab6d59adc1e

..which follows the README in a larger font. The buffer text is still
the same size, but that might be enough as a vague demonstration.

> Can you please write a descriptiom? of the feature?
> We will need that description anyway to add this to Emacs, so you may
> as well write it now.

Do you mean something in addition to what's already in the README[1]?

> Does this package require use of Org mode?

The intention was not to require it: any format supported by Pandoc that
Emacs can also read will do. But the code for including the _comments_
during reconversion back to Libreoffice ODT is only available for Org,
as it uses the Org exporter. Pandoc does not support that (yet), but it
shouldn't be hard to plug this into that or any such program in future.

> It is better to keep the two independent so that a user can use either
> one, or both, as perse wishes.

Amen.

Regards,
James

1: https://codeberg.org/quotuva/tchanges/raw/branch/main/README.org