Re: Org mode and Emacs

[Ihor Radchenko]

Juergen Fenn <jfenn@gmx.net> writes:

> Am 04.09.23 um 03:32 Uhr schrieb Richard Stallman:
>> But I think I see a disappointing difference between the two. Texinfo
>> for manuals is semantic markup, but the proposed use of Org mode for
>> manuals is not. With Texinfo, you specify what the manual contents
>> should be, and in each format you get that contents as output. See what
>> I mean?
>
>
> This is an interesting point indeed. I wonder, too, whether we could add
> semantic markup to Org? It's not exactly what lightweight markup
> languages such as Markdown or Org are meant to be. But we would not
> necessarily need this in core, a semantic add-on would probably be
> enough. We would need an interface that allows for more or less freely
> defining semantic markup to Org text. A semantic org mode. Hm.

This is exactly what I have in mind.
Similar idea is implemented in 
https://github.com/alhassy/org-special-block-extras

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