Re: [HELP] Fwd: Org format as a new standard source format for GNU manuals

[Richard Stallman]

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  > I would just like to point out that anyone familiar with writing a
  > Texinfo-format manual who wants to combine this with Org mode
  > would likely just want to embed Org constructs, like Org tables in
  > the manual; not to use Org as a formatter that exports individual
  > source blocks to form a Texinfo manual (literate programming
  > style).

The proposal I thought I was responding to is different from both of
those.  It was to make Org format an option for the source format for
a whole GNU manual.  One that could generate the same output formats
that we now generate from Texinfo, and would be able to produce a
well-formatted printed manual via TeX.

This does not inherently require imply generating Texinfo format from
Org format.  Texinfo format is a source format, not an output format.

However, generating Texinfo format as an intermediate format might be
advantageous as a way to feed the Org-format manual through TeX to
get a well-formatted printed manual.


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