* Org mode manual written in? texinfo?
@ 2010-08-29 19:12 Gustav Wikström
2010-08-30 12:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-30 15:56 ` Thomas S. Dye
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From: Gustav Wikström @ 2010-08-29 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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I was just wondering... Is the manual written in texinfo markup, or is there
some obscure .org file behind the manual still?
If it really is written in texinfo, is this not a shortcoming? Org mode is
capable of generating html and pdf etc. Why not use it for the manual then
to set the example and show its powers!?
/Gustav
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* Re: Org mode manual written in? texinfo?
2010-08-29 19:12 Org mode manual written in? texinfo? Gustav Wikström
@ 2010-08-30 12:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-30 15:56 ` Thomas S. Dye
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From: Carsten Dominik @ 2010-08-30 12:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gustav Wikström; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:12 PM, Gustav Wikström wrote:
> I was just wondering... Is the manual written in texinfo markup, or
> is there some obscure .org file behind the manual still?
>
> If it really is written in texinfo, is this not a shortcoming? Org
> mode is capable of generating html and pdf etc. Why not use it for
> the manual then to set the example and show its powers!?
Org-mode is currently not able to produce TeXInfo, which is the
standard for Emacs documentation. Also TeXInfo has support for lots
of indices etc.
- Carsten
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* Re: Org mode manual written in? texinfo?
2010-08-29 19:12 Org mode manual written in? texinfo? Gustav Wikström
2010-08-30 12:55 ` Carsten Dominik
@ 2010-08-30 15:56 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-09-03 7:30 ` Gustav Wikström
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From: Thomas S. Dye @ 2010-08-30 15:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gustav Wikström; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Aloha Gustav,
Theoretically, one could export from org to docbook, then output
texinfo with docbook2x. I tried this a while ago but couldn't get
docbook2x to work with minimal effort and gave up.
Tom
On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Gustav Wikström wrote:
> I was just wondering... Is the manual written in texinfo markup, or
> is there some obscure .org file behind the manual still?
>
> If it really is written in texinfo, is this not a shortcoming? Org
> mode is capable of generating html and pdf etc. Why not use it for
> the manual then to set the example and show its powers!?
>
> /Gustav
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* Re: Org mode manual written in? texinfo?
2010-08-30 15:56 ` Thomas S. Dye
@ 2010-09-03 7:30 ` Gustav Wikström
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From: Gustav Wikström @ 2010-09-03 7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas S. Dye; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
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I guess there are two reasons for this then. The first being that there is
no easy Org-mode to texinfo conversion. The second reason being that
Org-mode still has less functionality than texinfo in terms of functionality
for document writing.
The reason for my post was simple. My thought was that if a tool is created
with the capability of doing a certain task, it would seem advantageous to
also be using that capability for the needs of the tool itself. Maybe in
some distant future there will be support for nice indexes (and appendices!
My personal request) also in Org-mode leading to someone writing a org ->
texinfo parser.
Regards Gustav
2010/8/30 Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com>
> Aloha Gustav,
>
> Theoretically, one could export from org to docbook, then output texinfo
> with docbook2x. I tried this a while ago but couldn't get docbook2x to work
> with minimal effort and gave up.
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Aug 29, 2010, at 9:12 AM, Gustav Wikström wrote:
>
> I was just wondering... Is the manual written in texinfo markup, or is
>> there some obscure .org file behind the manual still?
>>
>> If it really is written in texinfo, is this not a shortcoming? Org mode is
>> capable of generating html and pdf etc. Why not use it for the manual then
>> to set the example and show its powers!?
>>
>> /Gustav
>> _______________________________________________
>> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
>> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
>> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
>> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>>
>
>
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