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 22:13:02 -0400 Message-ID: <87ppj3gc0h.fsf@karnak.MagnumOpus.khem> References: <87fvk012fi.fsf@debian.uxu> <8761kw58n4.fsf@robertthorpeconsulting.com> <87oayoyoki.fsf@debian.uxu> 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 1400897646 23809 80.91.229.3 (24 May 2014 02:14:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 02:14:06 +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 04:13:59 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 1Wo1TC-0007nm-TT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 May 2014 04:13:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46395 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo1TC-0006a6-ES for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 22:13:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50627) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo1Sv-0006Ze-RS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 22:13:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo1Sq-0001gr-CZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 22:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51201) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo1Sq-0001gf-5R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2014 22:13:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Wo1So-00074S-TF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 May 2014 04:13:34 +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 04:13:34 +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 04:13:34 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 106 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:Ron+JFH872hrdvkOVUvnUojqA+Q= 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:97805 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Emanuel Berg writes: Hi Emanuel: > I never understood the Org-mode hype but it must be good as so many > people talk about it. Is it like a one-to-many mapping so there is one > Org-mode markup and then it gets you a website, a PDF, whatever, by > generating HTML (and CSS), LaTeX, etc., as an in-between stage? Is > that it? Yes, it is a one to many mapping. However, publishing is only a small part of org-mode. To quote from the introduction of the org-mode manual: ,---- | Org is a mode for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, and project | planning with a fast and effective plain-text system. It also is an | authoring system with unique support for literate programming and | reproducible research. |=20 | Org is implemented on top of Outline mode, which makes it possible to | keep the content of large files well structured. Visibility cycling and | structure editing help to work with the tree. Tables are easily created | with a built-in table editor. Plain text URL-like links connect to | websites, emails, Usenet messages, BBDB entries, and any files related | to the projects. |=20 | Org develops organizational tasks around notes files that contain lists | or information about projects as plain text. Project planning and task | management makes use of metadata which is part of an outline node. Based | on this data, specific entries can be extracted in queries and create | dynamic agenda views that also integrate the Emacs calendar and diary. | Org can be used to implement many different project planning schemes, | such as David Allen=E2=80=99s GTD system. |=20 | Org files can serve as a single source authoring system with export to | many different formats such as HTML, L A TEX, Open Document, and | Markdown. New export backends can be derived from existing ones, or | defined from scratch. |=20 | Org files can include source code blocks, which makes Org uniquely | suited for authoring technical documents with code examples. Org source | code blocks are fully functional; they can be evaluated in place and | their results can be captured in the file. This makes it possible to | create a single file reproducible research compendium. |=20 | Org keeps simple things simple. When first fired up, it should feel like | a straightforward, easy to use outliner. Complexity is not imposed, but | a large amount of functionality is available when needed. Org is a | toolbox. Many users usilize only a (very personal) fraction of Org=E2=80= =99s | capabilities, and know that there is more whenever they need it. |=20 | All of this is achieved with strictly plain text files, the most | portable and future-proof file format. Org runs in Emacs. Emacs is one | of the most widely ported programs, so that Org mode is available on | every major platform. `---- Here is a very abridged list of it's features: http://orgmode.org/features.html or take a look at the manual itself: http://orgmode.org/org.html The pdf version of the manual is 281 pages long! > Or what is it? If it is, how can you trust it? Won't you scratch your > head all the time thinking, "can Org-mode really write as good > HTML/LaTeX/whatever as I?" Well try it out for yourself and see. There is very fine gain control of publishing. For example, for LaTeX and pdf: http://orgmode.org/org.html#LaTeX-and-PDF-export and for html: http://orgmode.org/org.html#HTML-export etc. Regards, Charles =2D-=20 "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlOAADgACgkQ3epPyyKbwPaMGACdEGywrdu1RqOW/SVN7afoB9KO ReUAn1DxwH5Lr/L5UB9wnIXOh54y6wRJ =whLw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--