Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die

[Fabrice Niessen]

Hello,

Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> FYI: Org-mode supports HTML, Texinfo and more:
>>>
>>> http://orgmode.org/manual/Exporting.html
>>
>> Right... I more mean, how much work is there to make it usable for a
>> manual the size of emacs', and also make it look nice and modern?
>
> As mentioned on a previous post, Org is used to create books.
>
>> I have seen some orgmode exports that looked *slick*, I think they were
>> using orgmode package plus some theming that made it look very nice, but
>> I'm not sure what it is.  The default orgmode export is not good enough,
>> I think.
>
> That can be customized as much as you like.
>
> Apart from the default settings, the Org hackers will be happy to adapt
> the package to our requirements. Can you say the same from the
> Sphinx/AsciiDoc/rst/whatever maintainers?

Not answering on the whole debate, just on that particular point: yes,
the HTML exported from Org mode is highly customizable (we can add CSS
and JS as we like).

I've done such an attempt to democratize nice HTML layout from Org mode
by just adding a couple of lines of declaration [1].

See the results at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnSGSiXYuOk.

Best regards,
Fabrice

[1] https://github.com/fniessen/org-html-themes

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Fabrice Niessen
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