Correct. 1. Org should be the truth, not some export format that is picked based on political opinion.
2. Lowest Common denominator in my vocabulary is a "bad word" that LCD is something that makes everyone equally unhappy. So Take-Away: 1. Make org the best format for holding the authored content. 2. Consider all exports to be either modality or use-case specific and produce the best version that that export format can support. 3. But then dont fall into the delusion that the export format is the truth -- Ihor Radchenko writes: > briangpowell <briangpowel...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Suggest OrgMode outputs focus on creating "Lowest Common Denominator" > > documents as output: > > TeXinfo docs should be used as the LCD doctype--suggest you focus on > > creating 1 document in Texinfo that you use to create all other sorts of > > documents, when possible: > > > > Pipeline should be more like > > OrgMode->Texinfo->TROFF||DTD/XML/HTML/XHTML->LaTeX/TeX->DVI||SVG->PS->PDF > > > > * TeXinfo: https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/texinfo > > https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo > > I do not think that using Texinfo as intermediate format is useful. > Texinfo does not support many of the available Org syntax structures > like, for example, backend-specific export blocks. We will inevitably > lose some document structure information when exporting to Texinfo. > Please remember that Texinfo is by no means a generic export engine - it > is tailored to produce software documentation specifically and may not > be suitable for more generic authored documents. > > Note that we already have a much more feature-full export functionality. > RMS even suggested that Org might be used as a replacement for Texinfo: > https://yhetil.org/emacs-devel/e1nzqh5-0001ob...@fencepost.gnu.org > > Best, > Ihor -- Thanks, --Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research) ♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1 🦮 -- Thanks, --Raman(I Search, I Find, I Misplace, I Research) ♉ Id: kg:/m/0285kf1 🦮