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Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Convert README.org to plain text README while installing package
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 11:23:41 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> FWIW I find this particular conversion made things overall worse :-(
> Hmm, what in particular?

I didn't like the two spaces after the "bullets" and more importantly
the information about what is a title was completely lost.

> As I said it doesn't have to be this specific formatting.

Sure, I just mentioned it because I found it rather odd to return
a worse result than the identity function.

> It could also just be cleaned up markdown, moving links below
> paragraphs, wrapping lines and stuff like that.

Then again, this can (should?) be applied to the source directly.

Don't get me wrong: I'm definitely not opposed to rendering Markdown to
plain text.  I've seen a fair bit of "GFM" files that are not great to
read as plain text, so there is clearly room for improvement.
Maybe throwing out the badges would be a good first step ;-)


        Stefan




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