Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes: > Eric Abrahamsen <e...@ericabrahamsen.net> writes: > >> What might be nice to have in contrib is an exporter derived from the >> current texinfo exporter, but specifically set up for Gnu project >> manuals: so it does the copyright header, and index macros, and maybe >> even the proper DIR integration (?). > > Maybe a "GNU template" would be enough? (template as in C-e #).
Yup, that would do it. I think the main thing is just advertising, in some way, that Org is a suitable authoring tool for Gnus manuals, and making it as easy as possible. >> I remember where I originally saw this: it was a long thread on >> emacs.devel about moving documentation to HTML, which struck me as a >> terrible idea. I think Org was raised as a way of lowering the barrier >> to writing texinfo manuals for packages, so that we get the best of both >> worlds: write in Org, read in Info. I think it would be a great idea to >> facilitate that, if possible. > > There's a recap here: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/625072/ Oof, that was depressing to revisit.
