From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: RTF for emacs Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 05:03:28 +0200 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87fvjvc48v.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1401159926 13401 80.91.229.3 (27 May 2014 03:05:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 03:05:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 27 05:05:20 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 1Wp7hY-0002jg-3i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 May 2014 05:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59541 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wp7hX-00029k-NR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 May 2014 23:05:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.albasani.net!rt.uk.eu.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: u+UUXbnu1hlDFr5pMibebQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:E4wMj+XK0KL8cDak4A5rmKXYTZI= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205627 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:97897 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe writes: > There is one thing I disagree with you about though. > You talk about there being simple documents where > plain text is sufficient and complex documents. I > still think there's a third case, documents that are > too complex for plain text but that aren't as big as > books or dissertations. I think that this type of > document is much more important than you think it is. > At least in my life I've had to write short documents > much more often than long ones. Not only programmers have a binary world-view. In the Soviet Union, I heard there were only two trucks: one big, and one small... Writing those short documents doesn't seem pleasant at all because you don't get the speed and workflow of plain text, and you don't get the advanced features and total control of LaTeX (and even if you did, it wouldn't make sense to spend time on all the details because you'd know the document would end up in the cylinder archive pretty soon anyway, so why bother). But if I had to do those short documents (and couldn't use plain text) I would want something that still isn't "compiled". I would want to see the changes instantly as I make them, otherwise it would be complete torture to produce any quantity of such documents. I don't know if Org-mode does that, probably. -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573