Re: [O] The org paper manual - tools used

[Christian Egli]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> Marcelo de Moraes Serpa <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> How was the process, from org file to tex to paper? I think it'd be
>> nice if whoever did it (Carsten?) documented that on Worg. Org is
>> amazing as a publishing platform (for books and ebooks), but I feel
>> the information is still scattered around. 
>
> Unfortunately, the org documentation is not an org file: org.texi is the
> primary file and it has always been a texinfo file. makeinfo is used to
> turn it into an info file, and texi2pdf is used to turn it into a PDF
> file (and thence to paper): see the org Makefile.

Well, back in the olden days the documentation was simple plain text
inside of org.el which I eventually converted into a texinfo file.
Texinfo has some very nice features which at the time org-mode did not
even dream of having (it did not have an agenda and probably no
exporters).

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Christian Egli
Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
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