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Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README whi


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package)
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 09:44:54 +0300

> From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>,  rms@gnu.org,
>   monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  acm@muc.de,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 14:20:37 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> I"m also not convinced that org mode would be the right solution for
> >> Emacs documentation.
> >
> > Then why Org's own manual is written in Org instead of Texinfo?
> 
> I do not know if Org mode would be a good solution for Emacs
> documentation. However, compared to texinfo, our manual is lacking index
> entries in all the exported versions but texinfo.

Lack of an index makes for a less useful manual, IME.

Anyway, is the lack of the index the _only_ missing feature from what
the Org markup provides as compared to Texinfo?  Tim's message sounded
like there are many more omissions.



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