Hi Steve, > Finally I would like to publish it in 3 formats: Paperback, pdf and > Kindle. > > What are your thoughts about using orgmode versus Pollen for this project? > I used to use org-mode a lot.
I think org-mode is called a swiss knife not because it supports multiple publishing system, but because of Emacs the editor itself. All markup languages are ad-hoc, and ad-hoc languages are inconsistent, and fragile. I don't think I can still use my org file created five years ago because the incompatible features they may have introduced, but I believe I can still use my Pollen file twenty years later just because Racket as a language won't change much. (yes, I am saying org-mode is an ad-hoc markup language happened to be supported by the most powerful editor. It got this nice interactive editing support on a unfortunate fragile base) Pollen is something different from org-mode. It has this beautiful, consistent core, but few editing support, but we're trying to solve that; it should not hold you off; at least we've gotten DrRacket, a simple Emacs-mode, pollen-rock and soon Atom support. (To me, Scribble and Pollen is done right just like scheme's static scope is done right over early lisp's dynamic scope. That IS an incredible achievement when I realize how many markup languages we have today, and how much time I've wasted trying those.) Hopefully we will see you around in the forum :D Junsong -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pollen" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
