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From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
Subject: Revisiting moving manual to Org (was: Is it possible to keep /all/
 the heading properties in one place?)
Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 12:57:58 -0500
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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
>
>> I worked on a project to port the Org manual to Org about three years
>> ago.  At the time, I thought the Texinfo exporter supported the project
>> quite well.
>>
>> The project had a mixed reception and ultimately wasn't adopted, but I
>> don't remember Texinfo exporter deficiencies figuring into the
>> decision.
>
> AFAIR, the problem is that Emacs developers fix spelling issues right
> into the ".texi" document, so we would need to backport each of their
> changes into the Org source. Duplicated efforts.

It is duplicated effort, but it's not too much beyond a normal backport.
If this is the only issue with moving to Org for the manual, I'd be
happy to take care of it when I backport changes.

--
Kyle