Re: upgrade ditaa

[Rasmus]

Sam Halliday <sam.halliday@gmail.com> writes:

> org-mode bundles a version of ditaa.jar which creates images from
> ASCII diagrams. It's a pretty neat tool to be honest.

No.

But a copy is in the contrib dir.

> But the version in org-mode is really old, the "latest" version (now
> about 5 years old) has support for transparent backgrounds in the
> output images
>
>   https://github.com/stathissideris/ditaa
>
> Weirdly, Debian is also distributing the old version instead of the "new" one.
>
> Does this seem like the sort of thing that should be upgraded for the
> next release of emacs / org-mode?

We could remove it from contrib. It's a jar so it's easy to install for
people who needs it.

We also don't ship support for mathjax fragments (e.g. MathToWeb) with
org.

Rasmus

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