Re: org-mode for package documentation

[Payas Relekar]

Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:

> Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>
>> Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> writes:
>>
>>> Dear Compeers,
>>>
>>> Some months ago there had been a discussion about using org-mode
>>> to produce package documentation.  Which would allow the use of
>>> Latex3 (e.g. use of colour, floating images).
>>
>> Where/when did this happen?  Could you provide a few pointers?
>
> I don't know exactly but when use-package was merged into Emacs there
> were discussions if keeping the documentation in org-mode format is
> fine.
>
> From what I understood it is possible.

IIRC, Richard Stallman said he'd be amenable to it, _provided that_ Org
fulfilled all the requisite functionality from Texinfo.

Ihor (org maintainer) was also receptive, but I don't remember if/how
much progress happened towards the goal.

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