From: Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com>
To: "Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>
Cc: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>,
Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>,
Help Emacs Orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Help Gnu Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-mode for package documentation
Date: Sun, 28 May 2023 16:44:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877csszoy6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:
> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Dear Compeers,
>>>
>>> Some months ago there had been a discussion about using org-mode
>>> to produce package documentation. Which would allow the use of
>>> Latex3 (e.g. use of colour, floating images).
>>
>> Where/when did this happen? Could you provide a few pointers?
>
> I don't know exactly but when use-package was merged into Emacs there
> were discussions if keeping the documentation in org-mode format is
> fine.
>
> From what I understood it is possible.
IIRC, Richard Stallman said he'd be amenable to it, _provided that_ Org
fulfilled all the requisite functionality from Texinfo.
Ihor (org maintainer) was also receptive, but I don't remember if/how
much progress happened towards the goal.
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next reply other threads:[~2023-05-28 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-28 11:14 Payas Relekar [this message]
2023-05-29 7:54 ` org-mode for package documentation Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-29 7:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-29 8:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-04-28 18:42 Christopher Dimech
2023-04-28 21:08 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-27 17:18 ` Björn Bidar
2023-05-28 11:08 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-06-06 16:49 ` David Masterson
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