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From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Rationale for *text* -> \alert{text} for Beamer export?
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 12:44:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130502104431.GD17914@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1fvy62x9e.fsf@poto.myhome.westell.com>

On Wed, May 01, 2013 at 11:41:49AM -1000, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Marcin Borkowski <mbork@wmi.amu.edu.pl> wrote:
> 
> 3) So, markup should be semantic, rather than visual.
> 
> It is possible to achieve identical results using visual markup, of
> course, but why not let the computer keep track of things instead?
> >
> > Sure, and understood. In general, I'm using *text* simply to call
> > attention to something important. I work in product development, so
> > something like:
> >
> > Customer response to product sampling:
> > - *US:* blah blah blah
> > - *China:* blah blah blah
> > - *India: blah blah blah
> 
> Here, to achieve semantic markup, you would use description lists
> 
> - US :: blah
> - China :: blah
> - India :: blah

Description lists align at the "::", which can look weird when you have
headings of very different lengths.  So I often use \structure{..}.  I
have a filter that translates +strikethrough+ text to structure[1].


Footnotes:

[1] <http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/ox-beamer.html#export-filters>


-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-05-02 10:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-01 14:17 Rationale for *text* -> \alert{text} for Beamer export? John Hendy
2013-05-01 15:00 ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-05-01 20:50   ` John Hendy
2013-05-01 21:41     ` Thomas S. Dye
2013-05-01 22:09       ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-05-02 10:44       ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
2013-05-02  2:48 ` James Harkins
2013-05-02  8:20   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-05-02 11:44     ` James Harkins
2013-05-02  9:53   ` Marcin Borkowski
2013-05-02 10:28   ` Suvayu Ali

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