Hi all. I am not a programmer, but have found Org-mode useful for editing
course lessons.
I, blind myself, teach other blind people how to use technology and software,
along with my supervisor and quite a few others. We have many courses on the
use of Microsoft Office, Gmail, Internet basics, and so on. These courses are
handled by Moodle, which accepts HTML and Markdown formatted text. Why it
doesn’t use Org-mode, which is superior to Markdown in every way, is beyond me.
So, these course lessons are awfully malformed HTML. Empty <p> tags, misused
things litter these files, and “middle dot” characters are used instead
of <li> elements.
I’ve taken it upon myself to clean all this up, and Org-mode does it all. The
only problem is, when I convert from HTML to Org-mode using Pandoc, just doing:
Pandoc -I lesson1.html -o lesson1.org <http://lesson1.org/>
The lists are not made into indented ones, just a paragraph, which I manually
have to indent, marking the lines below the list marker line, and doing C-x
C-I, then indenting 3 or four spaces, then filling the paragraph just to make
sure.
Is there anything I can do to make this less tedious?
Other than all that, Org-mode does amazingly for everything I’ve used it for,
so thanks so much for all who, knowing much more than I do about code, work on
Org-mode, and Emacs in general.
