From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: template for writing Emacs manuals in Org
Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 16:34:53 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bn456q1e.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87futh6ssb.fsf@gmx.us
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> What might be nice to have in contrib is an exporter derived from the
>> current texinfo exporter, but specifically set up for Gnu project
>> manuals: so it does the copyright header, and index macros, and maybe
>> even the proper DIR integration (?).
>
> Maybe a "GNU template" would be enough? (template as in C-e #).
Yup, that would do it. I think the main thing is just advertising, in
some way, that Org is a suitable authoring tool for Gnus manuals, and
making it as easy as possible.
>> I remember where I originally saw this: it was a long thread on
>> emacs.devel about moving documentation to HTML, which struck me as a
>> terrible idea. I think Org was raised as a way of lowering the barrier
>> to writing texinfo manuals for packages, so that we get the best of both
>> worlds: write in Org, read in Info. I think it would be a great idea to
>> facilitate that, if possible.
>
> There's a recap here:
>
> https://lwn.net/Articles/625072/
Oof, that was depressing to revisit.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-17 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-14 7:21 template for writing Emacs manuals in Org Eric Abrahamsen
2016-05-16 17:37 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-16 17:55 ` John Hendy
2016-05-16 18:08 ` Rasmus
2016-05-16 18:40 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-05-16 20:02 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-16 21:33 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-05-17 5:52 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-17 14:44 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-05-17 15:37 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-17 18:36 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-05-17 18:56 ` Charles C. Berry
2016-05-17 18:56 ` Nick Dokos
2016-05-18 9:21 ` Rasmus
2016-05-18 14:56 ` Jonathan Leech-Pepin
2016-05-18 16:20 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-05-18 16:43 ` Rasmus
2016-05-17 0:23 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-05-17 3:32 ` Thomas S. Dye
2016-05-17 4:16 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-05-17 7:35 ` Rasmus
2016-05-17 8:34 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2016-05-17 13:24 ` Phillip Lord
2016-05-18 23:59 ` Ciaran Mulloy
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