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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hi Org-mode community,</p> <p>At this year's EmascsConf, I had a 12 minute video where I explain why we do need a different name for the syntax of Org-mode in contrast to the Elisp implementation of GNU/Emacs Org-mode.</p> <p>I would like you to read my rationale and motivate you to use the term "<strong>Orgdown</strong>" for the syntax and "Orgdown1" for the first (very basic) level of Orgdown syntax elements.</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://emacsconf.org/2021/talks/org-outside">The EmacsConf21 talk</a></li> <li><a href="https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown">Orgdown site</a> (please contribute!)</li> <li><a href="https://karl-voit.at/2021/11/27/orgdown/">My motivation article</a>: This is the longer version of my 12 minute EmacsConf21 video.</li> <li><a href="https://tube.graz.social/w/bgJVfjPLQAoJwLJQZoo3Hu">My personal copy of the 12min video</a> (PeerTube)</li> </ul> <p>Just as a sneak preview (not as a replacement for my motivation article):</p> <p>Orgdown is and will be defined in a set of levels, starting with very basic Orgdown1 (or OD1 or O↓1 or ⧬1 - depending on your coolness factor of choice :-) )</p> <ul> <li>OD1 → <a href="https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Orgdown-Levels.org">doc/Orgdown-Levels.org</a></li> <li>OD2 → will be defined in future</li> <li>OD3 → will be defined in future</li> <li>…</li> <li>OD∞ = Org-mode (by definition)</li> </ul> <p>Any OD-level needs to be compatible with Org-mode as implemented in Elisp for GNU/Emacs Org-mode according to <a href="https://orgmode.org">the Org-mode webpage</a>. Any <em>ODx</em> is a sub-set of the syntax elements of <em>ODy</em> (with <em>y>x</em>).</p> <p>With introducing a new term specific for the syntax, we do get the benefit of getting a better way to handle Org-mode support in 3rd-party tools such as listed on <a href="https://gitlab.com/publicvoit/orgdown/-/blob/master/doc/Tool-Support.org">doc/Tool-Support.org</a> (please extend!).</p> <p>Having a well-defined sub-set of Org-mode, I also do think that formal definitions of the Org-mode syntax will be easier to develop, starting with the very simple OD1 level.</p> <p>It would be awesome if we start referring to syntax support in 3rd-party tools with the corresponding OD levels.</p> <p>I want to emphasize that the goal of Orgdown is NOT and will never be something that is an alternative to our golden standard Org-mode. We will try hard not to get into the Markdown situation where you need to know the exact flavor of the markup in order to produce text.</p> <p>So far, the response was great at the conference and I do hope that this idea will get a life of its own, developing the standard further, bringing this magnificent lightweight markup to the digital world. This also eases some pain for users of GNU/Emacs when it comes to exchanging text-based data.</p> <p>Thanks for your support here!</p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/publicvoit"> /u/publicvoit </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r4cq3o/orgdown_the_new_name_for_the_syntax_of_orgmode/">[link]</a></span>   <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/r4cq3o/orgdown_the_new_name_for_the_syntax_of_orgmode/">[comments]</a></span> |