Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com> writes:

> We, Org devs, are working on modularizing Org.
> Currently, extracting fontification is not trivial because it depends on
> most of Org being loaded.
>
> If everything goes as planned (famous last words), fontification will
> only require Org parser and Org fontification library.

Perhaps it would be a smaller project to just make a super-simple Org
parser/displayer to handle what we typically see in a README.org file?
I.e., something that does nice fontification of #+ blocks and ***
headings and =this= (etc.), and then just removes all the rest of the
markup.

I mean, it sounds like it could be a very small, lightweight library to
get to a 90% solution that would be acceptable to show in the *Help*
buffer.  And then we wouldn't have to convert anything.

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