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Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die |
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Sun, 07 Dec 2014 04:21:13 -0500 |
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> > I once looked at the documentation for Org mode, and gave up. It
presented
> > doing things I didn't find useful.
> This is true for everybody. There's plenty of features I don't know
> anything about, though I semi-regularly contribute to Org.
I think my statement was misunderstood.
When I started reading the Org mode manual,
everything I saw at the beginning was uninteresting,
things I had no wish to do. So I stopped reading it.
> > I could consider Org mode as a way of formatting manuals if I saw
> > documentation presenting Org mode _as_ a way to format manuals.
> > However, it would still have two big drawbacks as a candidate for GNU
> > documentation.
> >
> > * It is a program. What we need is a format.
> This claim is simply wrong.
What people have proposed, so far, is to use Org mode.
That is a program that runs in Emacs.
To propose using Org _format_ is a different proposal.
We can consider that.
> > * The program runs only in Emacs.
> Again, your claim is simply false. The syntax is there and can be support
> by anybody.
Org mode is not a syntax, it is a program written in Emacs Lisp.
Other interpreters than org-element.el exists. For instance,
> Github supports a subset of the Org-syntax via org-ruby. I think vim even
> has some support of Org-syntax.
Interesting.
I will look at the page that describes Org format.
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- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, (continued)
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Steinar Bang, 2014/12/08
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Karl Fogel, 2014/12/09
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Ulrich Mueller, 2014/12/10
- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Eric S. Raymond, 2014/12/10
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- Re: On being web-friendly and why info must die, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/11
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