From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: Org mode export to Groff MM. Feature Freeze Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:20:38 +0200 Message-ID: <87a9yy664p.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43101) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sr4wc-0007Yn-E7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:23:58 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sr4wb-0002iq-Gl for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:23:54 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com ([209.85.212.177]:56980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sr4wb-0002ig-AX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 06:23:53 -0400 Received: by wibhm11 with SMTP id hm11so158979wib.12 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:23:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Luis Anaya's message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:50:32 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Luis Anaya Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello, Luis Anaya writes: > It might be easier to implement a typesetter for MAN pages in muse mode > because it has a simpler rendering framework. It may also be a more > appropriate platform considering that MAN pages do not have a lot of > formatting requirements, when they are compared to a document > with multiple levels, lists, equations and graphics which is what you > find in papers, letters or memorandum. An advantage of the new export engine is that a back-end can be as simple as you want it to be. Sure, e-latex, e-odt, ... try to be as comprehensive as possible with regards to Org syntax, but it doesn't mean that every back-end has to handle every syntactic element. One can imagine specialized back-ends only rendering a limited set of Org features. As long as the set is explicitly documented in the back-end, there's nothing wrong with that. Note that I do not comment the comparison with Muse mode rendering framework, which I do not know. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou