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authorNicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>2018-04-20 11:11:52 +0200
committerNicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>2018-04-20 11:11:52 +0200
commit14d3d59c44c63e82048e3d6424119f0fe8a64999 (patch)
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parent8c3d4fbde7989484aa857451beac72b35a9c987c (diff)
downloadorg-mode-619200a9cb9e9ad3ed532249609308a404f298e6.tar.gz
Clarify `md' and `html' back-ends relationshiprelease_9.1.10
* doc/org.texi (Markdown export): Reword. Reported-by: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> <http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-orgmode/2018-04/msg00303.html>
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diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
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@@ -12670,12 +12670,12 @@ The @LaTeX{} export back-end converts horizontal rules by the specified
@section Markdown export
@cindex Markdown export
-The Markdown export back-end, @code{md}, converts an Org file to a Markdown
+The Markdown export back-end, @code{md}, converts an Org file to Markdown
format, as defined at @url{http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/}.
-Since @code{md} is built on top of the HTML back-end, any Org constructs not
-supported by Markdown, such as tables, the underlying @code{html} back-end
-(@pxref{HTML export}) converts them.
+The @code{md} back-end is built on top of the HTML back-end (@pxref{HTML
+export}). As a consequence, it converts every Org construct not supported by
+Markdown syntax, such as tables, to HTML.
@subheading Markdown export commands