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On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Matti De Craene wrote:

>> - 2.8 Drawers
>> - 3.2 Column width and alignment
>> - 3.3 The Spreadsheet (4 rather technical pages)
>> - 7.4 Property Inheritance and 7.5 Column View
>> (do beginners really need properties at all ??)
>
>
> I would agree on this list (except maybe drawers).
>
> If there is room for additional sections maybe:
> - include the org ref card as an appendix (which in itself offers a
> very good overview of org)
> - include some pointers into getting emacs for different OSes and
> getting started with emacs. If there would be an O=B4Reilly book on
> Org-mode this would be in the first chapter or so. For people who
> started using emacs because of org (like me) the current Introduction
> might still be too cryptic (?)

Would you like to write that introduction?

- Carsten