RE: Re Org 9.4 is out. Can you help? // breaking apart Org Mode

[Ihor Radchenko]

> What do you think, is it to much work and where can you point out (just 
> generally) where to look in the source for the code responsible for that?

Sub/superscripts are all dumped inside org.el (together with most of
font-lock-related code).

arthur miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Not long time ago I posted a bug report about superscripts and subscripts not 
> rendered when in-between italics markings, '/'. I would definitely like to 
> see that code, and rest for  prettie-fying entities factored out into a minor 
> mode that can be activated in any Emacs  buffer.
>
> What do you think, is it to much work and where can you point out (just 
> generally) where to look in the source for the code responsible for that?
>
>
>
> -------- Originalmeddelande --------
> Från: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
> Datum: 2020-09-23 10:21 (GMT+01:00)
> Till: "William Rankin via General discussions about Org-mode." 
> <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
> Kopia: William Rankin <william@bydasein.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Ämne: Re: Re Org 9.4 is out. Can you help? // breaking apart Org Mode
>
> Hi William,
>
> thanks a lot for bringing this up.
>
> Of course, Org would benefit from code cleanup and code refactoring.
>
> And yes, we can collectively push toward (1) modularizing Org a little
> more, (2) making Org features better interact with Emacs core features
> and (3) integrating some of Org's features into Emacs core as Emacs
> features.
>
> IMHO the good examples you give fall into one of the category above,
> and I think such efforts are likely to happen in that order: 1, 2, 3.
>
> The better way to make this happen is to start a discussion with a
> patch explaining how it makes 1, 2 or 3, then discussing the patch
> here on this list - the smaller the better.
>
> If you cannot make a patch, first discuss your idea, and once the
> implementation seems clear, call for help by using a mail header:
>
>   X-Woof-Help: Help with making X a new module
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
>  Bastien