Re: [ELPA/elpa-admin] Render README.org as HTML with ox-html

[Adam Porter]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> We want to support packages where the "readme" is either inside a file
> or inside a `Commentary:` section (and same thing for the news which can
> be in a file or in the `News:` section), which is why we have this
> function with this kind of "overloading".
>
> Currently regardless of its origin (file or section) the content is
> taken to be "plain text".  I'd like to extend this to allow not just
> `foo.org` files (as your patch does) but also allow the use of Org
> format in sections (maybe by calling it `Commentary.org:`).  It's not
> necessary to provide this support right now, but we can keep
> `elpaa--get-section` more or less as it is now, just extend it to return
> (TYPE . CONTENT).  Currently the TYPE would be `text/plain` in all cases
> except when the content comes from a file and the file's name ends in
> `.org`.
>
> And we'd add 2 new functions: one that converts (TYPE . CONTENT) to
> plain text (i.e. trivial when the type is `text/plain`) and
> another that converts it to HTML (using `elpaa--html-quote` for the
> `text/plain` case).
>
> Does it make more sense?

Thanks, now I have a better idea of what you want.  Hopefully this patch
is close to what you have in mind.

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