From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: orgmode manual improvement suggestion. Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:47:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3857.1301957233@alphaville.usa.hp.com> References: Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=52367 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q6sYG-0006EV-OL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:47:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6sYF-0006fB-AL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:47:16 -0400 Received: from g1t0026.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.33]:1052) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q6sYF-0006f5-6s for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:47:15 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Izzie of "Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:58:44 -0000." List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Izzie Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org [forgot to cc: the list] Izzie wrote: > Reading the manual, I found myself needing a single page version which > I found after a quick search, I noticed that org mode manual is > offered in several formats but not as much as emacs'[1]., which made > me wonder if there is a org manual plain text version that can be > downloaded somewhere. > If you download an org distribution (through git or a tar file or what have you), you should be able to find the doc/org.texi file which is used to generate the manual. The following page http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/manual/texinfo/html_node/Output-Formats.html#Output-Formats describes briefly how to produce each output format from the texi file. > I also want to report noticed a broken link, the first link in this > section [2] to "this directory" leads to a 404. > Somebody reported that a few days ago: I guess it has not been fixed yet. > And that the single page version of "the compact Org-mode Guide" is > missing. > Follow the link called "Generating HTML" in the above page to find out how to generate HTML output in a single page (the input file is doc/orgguide.texi). But I don't know whether the single page document ever was (or should be) available from the orgmode site, so I'm not sure I'd characterize is as "missing": Matt and/or Jason would know better. Nick