> would contributors just need to use Emacs? As you note, org-mode text is just special plaintext, no different from Markdown (other than being rather more pow

> would contributors just need to use Emacs? As you note, org-mode text is just special plaintext, no different from Markdown (other than being rather more powerful). And of course folks should want to use emacs, or a similarly-powerful editor in which it's possible to build something like org-mode. Why use worse tools when better ones are equally available?