From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using Org as the source format to generate org.texi Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:57:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <878tb5axms.fsf@bzg.fr> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520463332 24187 195.159.176.226 (7 Mar 2018 22:55:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 22:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 23:55:28 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ethxz-0004iR-Qj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:55:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35933 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eti00-0000f3-VU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:57:28 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54129) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ethzu-0000eu-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ethzt-00084n-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:57:22 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:49514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ethzp-000830-SJ; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:57:17 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ethzp-0003vF-Dk; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 17:57:17 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:20:13 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223479 [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > One drawback is that we will have to backport manual changes made in > > Emacs' repo to org.texi into Org's manual.org file, but such changes > > are rare enough that we think we can handle this. > Why wouldn't we use Org's manual.org in Emacs? Our standard format for manuals is Texinfo. However, it is ok to use another format if it can be converted into good Texinfo. That means the conversion produces a Texinfo file which uses all the constructs according to our style. If Org can convert manual.org into that, then it is ok as a source file. Can Org express all the constructs of Texinfo? But I think 'manual.org' is the wrong name for it. It isn't the one and only manual we distribute, and it may not be the only one written in org. So it should be 'org-manual.org', right? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.