Just want to acknowledge the joy of this endeavor. A running documentation of your failures is a great idea that I fully support.

http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/orgmode-wordprocessor.html When I first saw one of his videos I was wondering how sick an effect was achieved, though I never asked–thanks to all who did for me.

http://chromakode.com/post/18-years-in-8-hours