Closed DamienCassou closed 2 years ago
My decision many years ago to write info manuals in org causes me frustration to this day.
If you do this and want all users to have access to the info manual then you won't get around checking in the generated texi files. Recently I have put a lot of work into overcoming this, but for now I had to suspend my efforts until the next Org release is out, at which point I might be able to do it.
Also, do not expect that those who write their info manuals in texi will consider your generated texi files to be anywhere near good enough.
It has been a time consuming and frustrating journey and by now "info from org" is pretty much my least favorite Emacs topic. I find it very hard to write about it without immediately entering rant mode.
In other words, you will get a response but it might be a while. So far I haven't even managed to properly think about what you are proposing, as I had to put all energy into containing the rant that wanted to come out.
This is awesome, thank you very much!
You are welcome!
@minad and I recently discussed the generation of an info manual from a package's README.org. Some packages provide a README.org which can be compiled into a texi file which made me add the following to my .gitmodules file in 3 different places:
@minad asked me if it would make sense to add a
borg-orgtotexi
function that would take care of generating a texi. I think it would make sense but:build-step
?What do you think?