Export formats: Is there an in-house Emacs final format?

[Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>]

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I'm a beginner, and I'm trying to imagine how I'd use org mode to create a
sort of running conversation with myself. That is, I'd like to do a form of
journaling where I could make notes to myself, which would include the
usual text as outlne-hierarchy, hyperlinks too, but also babel code chunks,
as well as any sort of mathematical formulae I might want to include. It's
this last requirement that seems to be the hardest. As far as I can tell,
the readability of my raw org file would go out the window when I started
trying to put in math formulae. As I understand, you basically do raw Tex
markup for math stuff -- and you can only see the results when you export
to something external to Emacs like html for a browser or PDF for a PDF
viewer. Is this correct?

And for my title question, is there a native "in-house" i.e., the final
product is viewable in Emacs, export that would be rich enough (text,
images, and math symbols)? Besides the embedding of a PDF viewer in a
buffer trick, Emacs seems to have only Info. Does Info allow images and
fairly normal-looking math symbols? Or is "final product" always an
off-site, extra-Emacs business?

Lawrence Bottorff
North Shore MN

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