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

[Tim Cross]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> I have no problem if there are structured README.org or README.md files
>>> in parallel. But a README file should be plain text.
>>>
>>
>> I've seen this mentioned multiple times in this thread and it doesn't
>> make sense to me. 
>>
>> Org files *are* plain text. This is one of (perhaps the biggest) selling
>> points for org mode. They don't use any form of 'binary' data and can be
>> read just fine in any text editor or just using cat/less/more whatever.
>> They may look a little *ugly*, especially with respect to URLs, but are
>> still quite readable - a lot more readable than other plain text formats
>> such as xml or html or json etc.
>
> I have consult installed, and if I want to read the package summary
> generated by C-h P, I half of the buffer is just Org configuration:
>
> #+title: consult.el - Consulting completing-read
> #+author: Daniel Mendler
> #+language: en
> #+export_file_name: consult.texi
> #+texinfo_dir_category: Emacs misc features
> #+texinfo_dir_title: Consult: (consult).
> #+texinfo_dir_desc: Useful commands built on completing-read.
>
> #+html: <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/";><img alt="GNU Emacs" 
> src="https://github.com/minad/corfu/blob/screenshots/emacs.svg?raw=true"/></a>
> #+html: <a href="http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/consult.html";><img alt="GNU 
> ELPA" src="https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/consult.svg"/></a>
> #+html: <a href="http://elpa.gnu.org/devel/consult.html";><img alt="GNU-devel 
> ELPA" src="https://elpa.gnu.org/devel/consult.svg"/></a>
> #+html: <a href="https://melpa.org/#/consult";><img alt="MELPA" 
> src="https://melpa.org/packages/consult-badge.svg"/></a>
> #+html: <a href="https://stable.melpa.org/#/consult";><img alt="MELPA Stable" 
> src="https://stable.melpa.org/packages/consult-badge.svg"/></a>
>
> * Introduction
> :properties:
> :description: Why Consult?
> :end:
> #+cindex: introduction
>
> While plain text, it is not what I am interested in at this point.

and in what seems to be typical in this thread, you have selected an
extreme example to demonstrate your point. This is definitely not a
typical README.org file - at least not from my experience. 

This is also a completely pointless debate as Stefan has already
indicated auto translation to ascii will likely be what is done anyway.