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From: Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: A shorter manual
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:34:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739yfxnvc.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x2t20524da71004281027td76e29d8vf6ef95646620928e@mail.gmail.com> (Samuel Wales's message of "Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:27:32 -0700")

>> If the manual were in org, then the tag, :basic:, would suffice.  Just
>> export only that tag.  But maybe that is more work instead of less?
>>
>> On 2010-04-28, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> with the Org-mode manual moving toward 200 pages,  I am
>>> starting to worry that people with stop in their tracks
>>> when considering Org-mode, just because of the sheer size
>>> of the manual.
>>>
>>> So I did a little experiment.  I took the manual and stripped
>>> everything which could be considered advanced material, but
>>> keeping all features and all basic commands and customizations.


Great idea!

I hate to read more than neccessary :)

but...

> Just realized the need for export to info.  So never mind.  And it was
> obvius anyway.

I'd prefer to keep the full manual as texinfo file. It's so easy to
search in info files for what ever you're looking for.


  Sebastian

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28 21:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-28 15:46 A shorter manual Carsten Dominik
2010-04-28 15:57 ` Erik Iverson
2010-04-28 17:05   ` Dan Davison
2010-04-28 18:43     ` Matti De Craene
2010-04-28 21:52       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-29 17:23         ` Dan Davison
2010-04-29 21:27           ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-29 22:14             ` Dan Davison
2010-04-29 22:36               ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-30  6:47                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-01  6:41                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-04-30 14:12       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-05-02 10:13         ` Matti De Craene
2010-04-28 17:06   ` Dan Davison
2010-04-28 16:00 ` Marco
2010-04-28 16:45 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-04-28 17:24 ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-28 17:27   ` Samuel Wales
2010-04-28 18:59     ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-04-28 21:34     ` Sebastian Rose [this message]
2010-04-29 22:37       ` Samuel Wales

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