Re: Org mode and Emacs (was: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package)

[Ihor Radchenko]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>   > However, we have special blocks for this purpose. They are extendable,
>   > as I descibed above. Though some improvements in Org core might be
>   > needed if we have to use this extensibility more frequently.
>
> Maybe that is sufficient.  It would be ok to use, for manuals, a
> submode which extend the usual Org facilities.

Submode is what I am inclined to. All these @var and @dfn constructs
only make sense for software documentation. Org is aiming much more
general writeup.

> But it would be good for that submode to define shorter command names
> for these.

Could you please elaborate? Which parts of the Org syntax you find too
long?

Best,
Ihor