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Re: [Tools-discuss] New tool: Using Emacs Org Mode for writing RFCs

Richard Barnes <richard.barnes@gmail.com> Tue, 05 March 2019 03:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] New tool: Using Emacs Org Mode for writing RFCs
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Is there a brief answer to the question of what advantage this has over
Markdown, which has its own Emacs mode?

https://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 6:36 PM Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:

> FYI
>
> *From: *Christian Hopps <chopps@chopps.org>
> *Subject: **New tool: Using Emacs Org Mode for writing RFCs*
> *Date: *March 4, 2019 at 6:19:20 PM EST
> *To: *"ietf\@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
>
>
> Check it out: https://github.com/choppsv1/org-rfc-export
>
> If you are an Emacs user, especially one who is familiar with/uses Org
> Mode, I think you'll like this.
>
> I've been working on an org mode exporter for writing RFCs. As it's now in
> MELPA (package: ox-rfc) I figured it was a good time to announce it's
> availability. Basically you write your RFC in Org Mode and export it to
> XML. The back-end supports exporting to XML (for manual xml2rfc), but also
> supports exporting to text, HTML, or PDF, including directly into a buffer
> for easy previewing.
>
> Highlights:
> - Powerful Org Mode
> - Simple Citations/References.
> - Lists (Numbered, Unnumbered)
> - Definition Lists (term + definition)
> - Tables
> - Embedded Code (Literate Programming e.g., embed yang model, trees,
> examples)
>
> In particular YANG embedding is pretty neat. There's no need for separate
> files and tree generation (and example validation) can be automated from
> the embedded text.
>
> Check out the README and the examples (currently in the ert-tests
> directory).
>
> Thanks,
> Chris.
>
>
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