Re: "Why is emacs so square?"

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 13:03:52 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:

    >> I have no idea whether it does.  Maybe most of the change needed
    >> is in documentation, and a few little details to go with
    >> the change in documentation.

    Eli> I think we should try changing the documentation first, as that is a
    Eli> Good Thing anyway.  When that is done, we could consider whether any
    Eli> code changes are needed.  (I actually expect that to become evident
    Eli> while the documentation is re-written in the directions I proposed:
    Eli> whoever will do that job will discover that, for example, to be able
    Eli> to produce a stand-alone document with Org, one would need features
    Eli> that currently belong to some unrelated Org part -- which would mean
    Eli> some code needs to be added or modified to make that feature
    Eli> seamlessly available to document-writers.)

That depends on what you mean by 'stand-alone'. The built-in Org mode
from 'emacs -Q' can export to at least html, latex, pdf and odt by
default, of which only latex and pdf require the installation of extra
external tools.

Thereʼs a texinfo backend as well that youʼd need to enable, which may
well require external tool support (Iʼve never used it).

Robert