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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Other programs to edit Org documents?
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On 17.3.2011, at 08:21, Bastien wrote:

> Hi Scot,
> 
> Scot Becker <scot.becker@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> There are all kinds of advantages to this, seems to me, and of course
>> it partly exists in the form of Moblie Org.  Org-mode is both an
>> interface and a specification, you could say (as well as a friendly
>> club).
> 
> During the FOSDEM meeting, someone asked whether we had a description of
> the .org format -- we don't.  A file on Worg detailing these specs would
> actually be useful and probably help third-party programs to handle it.

What they really asked for was a formal description that can be
fed into a parser.  I am sure that this would be a useful thing to
have and would open a world of applications for the Org-mode format
as a plain text format.

- Carsten