[HELP] Fwd: Org format as a new standard source format for GNU manuals

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Dear List,

I am forwarding an official email from RMS changing subject line to more
descriptive. See below.

For some context, in order to support specialized syntax for manuals, we
may first need to implement the discussed special blocks export and
inline special blocks:
1. https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87y1yr9gbl.fsf@gmail.com/
2. https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/87edzqv4ha.fsf@localhost/

The above links aim to introduce export functionality that we now have
for links to special blocks and new custom markup elements. I am
referring to
1. Ability to create new custom element types programmatically 
2. Ability to define how to :export the custom element types

Similar to `org-link-set-parameters'.

Patches and more concrete ideas are welcome!

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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org mode and Emacs
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 08:10:03 -0400

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Speaking as the Chief GNUisance, rssponsible for GNU Project
standards, I would be happy to adopt an upgraded Org format as a new
standard source format for GNU manuals, _provided_ Org format has been
extended with the capability to express all the constructions and
distinctions that Texinfo can express, generate all the output formats
Texinfo can generate, and use TeX to make beautiful printed output.

Texinfo can generate these output formats: Info files, HTML, ASCII
text, and DVI and PDF files via TeX.

Texinfo provides numerous subtle distinctions that show up clearly in
each of these output formats.  Compare, for example, @var, @dfn and
@emph; compare @code, @samp, @file, @command, @option, @kbd, and @key.

I am sure people can extend Org software to handle these semantic
distinctions and generate these output formats.  Since it has been
done once, it can be done again.  But the work is not trivial.

The work has to start by designing what the extended Org format will look
like.  That part is the crucial part; once it has been specified,
people can work independently to implement various parts of handling
that format.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)



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