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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with org-entities-user
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:33:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2A730922-8F3C-4CEC-ACFA-AF04E6FF7DAB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d31idn1v.fsf@gmail.com>

Hi Nicolas,

maybe first have to get clear what you mean by "not accepting raw commands".
Would that mean that if I write \vspace in the buffer, the LaTeX exporter
would then give me \textbackslash{}vspace, for example, because i thinks that
I want that text to appear in the output?

- Carsten

On 19 sep. 2012, at 17:55, Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> These are all valid arguments.  However, I did design
>> Org-mode to be LaTeX-near to make sure that it becomes
>> easy and fast to type as a notes environment.  In my mind, a user
>> expecting \cite{...} to work in other backends is not necessarily
>> a wrong expectation, and if we introduce a syntax for doing citations
>> in HTML, why not using the LaTeX syntax for it?
>> 
>> So actually, it seems I do not fully agree with your *consistency*
>> argument.  While you are right that it is the logical and clean thing
>> if you view Org as a markup language created for export, it is not
>> necessarily the right solution for a convenience point of view.
> 
> My point is not about removing anything related to LaTeX syntax. I'm
> fine with a \cite{...} (although I think [[cite:...]] may be cleaner) as
> long as it really is accepted by most major export back-ends.
> 
> But I think accepting raw commands like \vspace, \hfill and al. is not
> necessary (as long as there's still a way to send them to the export
> back-end). We shouldn't trick users into thinking these commands will be
> obeyed in any situation.
> 
> Moreover, I don't think that they belong to an easy and fast to type
> notes environment.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Goaziou

- Carsten

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-09-20  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-09-17  2:32 Problem with org-entities-user Thomas S. Dye
2012-09-17  6:41 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-17 16:37   ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-09-19 13:15     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-19 14:55       ` Carsten Dominik
2012-09-19 15:55         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-19 17:00           ` Bastien
2012-09-19 19:23             ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-09-20  7:33           ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2012-09-20 11:57             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-20 13:36               ` Carsten Dominik
2012-09-22  8:52                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-22 14:57                   ` Carsten Dominik
2012-09-22 16:52                     ` Thomas S. Dye
2012-09-23  8:30                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2012-09-23 10:01                       ` Carsten Dominik
2012-09-23 18:18                         ` Thomas S. Dye

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