Aloha all, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes:
> Bastien <b...@gnu.org> writes: > >> To get Emacs core maintainers opinions on this and clarify if we can >> expand Org features at will or if they want to be control that >> somehow. > > AFAICT, we never asked Emacs maintainers before adding a feature to Org, > and I don't think the number of export targets in core grew > exponentially lately. > > Also, I don't see why Emacs maintainers would want to limit features > provided in an Emacs library, as long as it doesn't impedes GNU goals > and copyright issues are sorted out (which is not yet the case of the > file we're talking about). > >> That's different: supporting as many programming languages is a core >> feature of Babel, while supporting as many export target as possible >> should not be a core feature of Emacs IMO, it should stay as a nice >> facility of the Org ecosystem. >> >> The second part of the paragraph above ("while...") is where I'd be >> interested to hear about what Emacs core maintainers think. > > Sorry, I cannot understand this argument, since the target is a "tex" > file, and we already export to "tex" files. > >> If you're fine with this, I'll raise the topic on both emacs-devel >> and this list. > > I suggested this idea because I thought it was a good one. The very fact > that we're still discussing it proves that it isn't as obvious as > I initially thought. That's fine with me. > > I will not insist anymore on this topic. IMO, it would be nice if a lightweight markup language like Org supported sophisticated letter writing out of the box. All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com