Re: Language identifiers

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> If I had to do this, I would search around to see if there is an Org to
> Texinfo exporter, and then blindly / fully rely on it to do various
> wonders automatically! ;-) I did not check, but presume that the current
> manual original is directly written in Texinfo?
> 
That's correct: that's a requirement for being an official emacs package
I believe.

> More seriously, I did not write Texinfo in a lot of years, and do not
> even remember how we do tables with it.  Tables might have been added
> after my time, I'm not sure.  What I would likely do, given the problem,
> is merely to format the table myself in fixed font, and use @example /
> @end example around it (if I remember well, @example generates <pre>).
> Would that be acceptable?
> 
> I could offer that simple formatting if it could help, I presume it is
> likely a simple job for anybody.  The problem for me is rather to know
> what contents should go in there.  Write to me privately if you think I
> could be more of an help than a burden. :-)
> 

You don't really need to know texinfo: just look at relevant place(s)
in doc/org.texi, and munge it until it does what you want :-)

Nick