From: Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbs.ch>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The org paper manual - tools used
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:32:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkheeijq.fsf@sbs.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32106.1317851165@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org
Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <celoserpa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> How was the process, from org file to tex to paper? I think it'd be
>> nice if whoever did it (Carsten?) documented that on Worg. Org is
>> amazing as a publishing platform (for books and ebooks), but I feel
>> the information is still scattered around.
>
> Unfortunately, the org documentation is not an org file: org.texi is the
> primary file and it has always been a texinfo file. makeinfo is used to
> turn it into an info file, and texi2pdf is used to turn it into a PDF
> file (and thence to paper): see the org Makefile.
Well, back in the olden days the documentation was simple plain text
inside of org.el which I eventually converted into a texinfo file.
Texinfo has some very nice features which at the time org-mode did not
even dream of having (it did not have an agenda and probably no
exporters).
--
Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-06 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-04 20:44 The org paper manual - tools used Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-10-05 4:51 ` XeCycle
2011-10-05 20:50 ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-10-05 21:46 ` Nick Dokos
2011-10-06 6:32 ` Christian Egli [this message]
2011-10-29 10:46 ` Bastien
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