From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Egli Subject: Re: The org paper manual - tools used Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:32:57 +0200 Message-ID: <87zkheeijq.fsf@sbs.ch> References: <878vp0m474.fsf@gmail.com> <32106.1317851165@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54345) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBhW5-0005O8-Ie for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:33:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBhW4-00027q-Kt for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:33:13 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:37182) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RBhW4-00027m-Ds for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:33:12 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RBhW0-0002DG-GD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:33:08 +0200 Received: from gateway01.sbszh.ch ([217.162.18.85]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:33:08 +0200 Received: from christian.egli by gateway01.sbszh.ch with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:33:08 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Nick Dokos writes: > Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote: > >> How was the process, from org file to tex to paper? I think it'd be >> nice if whoever did it (Carsten?) documented that on Worg. Org is >> amazing as a publishing platform (for books and ebooks), but I feel >> the information is still scattered around.  > > Unfortunately, the org documentation is not an org file: org.texi is the > primary file and it has always been a texinfo file. makeinfo is used to > turn it into an info file, and texi2pdf is used to turn it into a PDF > file (and thence to paper): see the org Makefile. Well, back in the olden days the documentation was simple plain text inside of org.el which I eventually converted into a texinfo file. Texinfo has some very nice features which at the time org-mode did not even dream of having (it did not have an agenda and probably no exporters). -- Christian Egli Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland