From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
Cc: "Payas Relekar" <relekarpayas@gmail.com>,
"Björn Bidar" <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de>,
"Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>,
"Help Emacs Orgmode" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
"Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: org-mode for package documentation
Date: Mon, 29 May 2023 07:55:34 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt1n372h.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pm6jtvwz.fsf@localhost> (Ihor Radchenko's message of "Mon, 29 May 2023 07:54:20 +0000")
Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> writes:
> Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> IIRC, Richard Stallman said he'd be amenable to it, _provided that_ Org
>> fulfilled all the requisite functionality from Texinfo.
>
> Correct. We need to add more flexible markup. The idea was to add
> something similar to special blocks, but inline. Currently, ox-texinfo
> is approaching the extended markup with macros. See doc/doc-setup.org.
>
>> Ihor (org maintainer) was also receptive, but I don't remember if/how
>> much progress happened towards the goal.
>
> We discussed possible syntax of inline custom markup to be added. See
> https://orgmode.org/list/87bkqx4jyg.fsf@localhost Someone is to go ahead
> and try to implement it. It might be me in future, but I am prioritizing
> working on some other new features in Org for now.
My general question is what advantage this would provide over just using
TeXinfo in the first place, if the required complexity of the markup has
to be the same as for TeXinfo in the first place?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-29 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-28 11:14 org-mode for package documentation Payas Relekar
2023-05-29 7:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-05-29 7:55 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2023-05-29 8:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
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2023-04-28 18:42 Christopher Dimech
2023-04-28 21:08 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-05-27 17:18 ` Björn Bidar
2023-05-28 11:08 ` Philip Kaludercic
2023-06-06 16:49 ` David Masterson
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