From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Org mode rant Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 09:10:07 +0300 Message-ID: References: <874kfn292f.fsf@disroot.org> <87a6pfh1dj.fsf@zoho.eu> <875z03ffhm.fsf@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="25044"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat May 01 08:14:14 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lcitK-0006R6-Ht for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 08:14:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49702 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcitJ-0003Ni-Jt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 02:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:48388) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcisw-0003NQ-O2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 02:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:42559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lcisu-0001Xm-N6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 01 May 2021 02:13:50 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:154.231.162.22]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 0000000000046165.00000000608CF19A.00001DBA; Fri, 30 Apr 2021 23:13:45 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875z03ffhm.fsf@zoho.eu> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:129256 Archived-At: * Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [2021-05-01 03:47]: > Jean Louis wrote: > > >> Sure but not everyone likes it. > > > > For notes I have been using database for long time, then in > > 2016, I found about Org mode, and it is quite helpful to > > quickly without direct LaTeX usage generate good quality PDF > > files > > Sorry, you can't do that. Org mode is a way of organizing > data, it is not a generator of documents. Is the answer I got > anyway when I asked how to make the result look civilized. Ha. Maybe it is not, but I use Org export functions to get nice PDF documents that people practically use in the field. > re: LaTeX I was once told "you are obsessed with LaTeX" > (Swedish "du är besatt av LaTeX", it literally means that). > I answered "Yeah? What about you?" ("Okej? Du då?") and he > just said "No" ("Nej") and left. Who knows which latex you meant... This one is rather spelled as LaTeH the other one is used for balloons and population minimization. > > Markdown > > Markdown a lot of FOSS people have been in touch with since > the READMEs with all the square brackets you get when you get > FOSS software, that is Markdown. > > Unbelievable BTW, I was just using it! I have no idea why would README be in Markdown, but never mind. Unless one wants to expand it into HTML, readme looks better without Markdown. First began using it back in the same year when it was published, today almost everybody uses it. I had static website generation before any free software came up with it. Today there are many. At that time, before maybe 16 years, would I mention static website generation I would almost get stoned. Markdown and few other markups for HTML have one huge flaw that nobody talks about, it misses the size for pictures which in the end turns HTML invalid. That is why I never use any other Markdown but Discount markdown for images. It is anyway fastest. Pandoc's markdown I may use sometimes to make nicer syntax highlighting for code, where there are no images involved. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/