Bastien <b...@gnu.org> wrote: >Michael Hannon <jm_han...@yahoo.com> writes: > >> Hi, folks. Just FYI: >> >> ----- Forwarded Message ----- >>>From: Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> >>>To: Stephen Eglen <s.j.eg...@damtp.cam.ac.uk> >>>Cc: ess-h...@r-project.org >>>Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:08 PM >>>Subject: Re: [ESS] knitr >>> >>>There is no point comparing markdown with org mode, and the answer >>>will be definitely this: org mode can beat markdown almost everywhere; >>>they are not even comparable. The point is that markdown was not >>>designed to provide new features; it was designed to be simple so it >>>intentionally discarded lots of features and people can learn it >>>quickly. I have tried a few times to learn org mode, and it is just >>>too complicated for me. > > Well, it all boils down to disambiguate what "learning Org" means. >
> It is hard to say just from the message above. If you can, please redirect > the OP to this list so that he feels guided in tasks he wants to do with > Org. Hi, Bastien. I don't know this guy, but I don't think he's *trying* to learn Org mode at this point. He seems to be a very capable guy: http://yihui.name/ and is evidently the author of the R package "knitr" for literate programming. I was just struck by the fact that a person of his evident ability would give up on Org mode. I can't say it has been all that easy for me to use Org mode, and I'm sure there are Avogadro's number of things I still don't know about it, but I've never viewed it is being *that* difficult. Probably I've been spoiled by all the help I've gotten from this enormously useful list. There's no real action item for anybody here. I speculate that this guy might just have had more fun writing his own package than in learning somebody else's. But I don't see how it could hurt for the Org-mode community to keep an eye out for usability issues. -- Mike
