From: tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>,
Alan Schmitt <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org>,
Org Mode List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Move ox-koma-letter into core?
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 07:37:36 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2ppmyddsv.fsf@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wqh6zw8t.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:08:18 +0100")
Aloha all,
Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> To get Emacs core maintainers opinions on this and clarify if we can
>> expand Org features at will or if they want to be control that
>> somehow.
>
> AFAICT, we never asked Emacs maintainers before adding a feature to Org,
> and I don't think the number of export targets in core grew
> exponentially lately.
>
> Also, I don't see why Emacs maintainers would want to limit features
> provided in an Emacs library, as long as it doesn't impedes GNU goals
> and copyright issues are sorted out (which is not yet the case of the
> file we're talking about).
>
>> That's different: supporting as many programming languages is a core
>> feature of Babel, while supporting as many export target as possible
>> should not be a core feature of Emacs IMO, it should stay as a nice
>> facility of the Org ecosystem.
>>
>> The second part of the paragraph above ("while...") is where I'd be
>> interested to hear about what Emacs core maintainers think.
>
> Sorry, I cannot understand this argument, since the target is a "tex"
> file, and we already export to "tex" files.
>
>> If you're fine with this, I'll raise the topic on both emacs-devel
>> and this list.
>
> I suggested this idea because I thought it was a good one. The very fact
> that we're still discussing it proves that it isn't as obvious as
> I initially thought. That's fine with me.
>
> I will not insist anymore on this topic.
IMO, it would be nice if a lightweight markup language like Org
supported sophisticated letter writing out of the box.
All the best,
Tom
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-07 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-17 23:08 [RFC] Move ox-koma-letter into core? Nicolas Goaziou
2014-01-18 11:55 ` Rasmus
2014-01-18 18:10 ` Carsten Dominik
2014-01-19 13:19 ` Bastien
2014-01-19 14:03 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-19 14:20 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 17:38 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-20 18:12 ` Bastien
2014-01-20 19:10 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-20 20:05 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 1:12 ` Rasmus
2014-01-21 2:50 ` Eric Schulte
2014-01-21 10:52 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 15:50 ` Nick Dokos
2014-01-21 15:57 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 18:31 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-21 19:10 ` Bastien
2014-01-21 8:22 ` Detlef Steuer
2014-01-21 18:19 ` Achim Gratz
2014-01-21 19:08 ` Bastien
2014-01-27 14:36 ` Bastien
2014-01-29 13:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-01-29 14:02 ` Bastien
2014-02-07 10:35 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-02-07 10:47 ` Bastien
2014-02-07 17:08 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-02-07 17:28 ` Rasmus
2014-02-07 17:37 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2014-02-08 13:17 ` Bastien
2014-02-17 19:10 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2014-02-17 21:56 ` Thomas S. Dye
2014-02-19 20:33 ` Viktor Rosenfeld
2014-02-20 13:29 ` Rasmus
2014-02-20 22:32 ` Alan L Tyree
2014-03-04 9:35 ` Bastien
2014-02-17 22:25 ` Rasmus
2014-03-10 18:12 ` Greg Troxel
2014-01-18 21:15 ` Alan Schmitt
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