Re: markup for small caps ?

From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
Cc: "Sébastien Mengin" <sebastien-listes@edilibre.net>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: markup for small caps ?
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 09:08:48 -1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <373F2343-91D3-435C-B447-E5548E2C865C@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lj5e8dgk.fsf@gmail.com>

On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:43 AM, Dan Davison wrote:

> "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com> writes:
>
>> Aloha Sebastien,
>>
>> Arbitrary markup is possible, see http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/org-latex-export.php#sec-12
>>
>> Using this approach [[latex:textsc][My small caps]] would export to
>> LaTeX as \textsc{My small caps}.
>
> In the Org-buffer I see "My small caps" with a special underlined
> face. This is standard for links with a non-missing display part,  
> but in
> the case of non-standard link types such as this I'm not sure it's
> helpful. I think I'd like to see in my Org buffer what markup is being
> applied.[1]
>
> (Related question -- is there a command I can enter with point on a  
> link
> which displays the raw text of the link? (temporarily remove  
> overlays at
> point?))
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>
> Footnotes:
> [1]  Maybe add an optional display argument to org-add-link-type
> which would be a function used by the org-activate-*-link function??
>

Hi Dan,

I agree that it would be good to generalize the Org-mode link syntax  
so that it doesn't assume a link representation in the Org-mode buffer  
and in HTML export.  If a link representation was one possibility  
among others, then this syntax would be that much more useful.

As for showing small caps, say, in the Org-mode buffer, I agree that  
this would be nice in this instance.  Note, however, that this is an  
instance of direct style markup and not semantic markup.

In the more general case, the syntax applies semantic markup that is  
recognized by a LaTeX class file, a CSS stylesheet, etc., which is  
responsible for seeing that the marked up content looks right.  IIUC,  
your suggestion of an optional display argument would be the Org-mode  
equivalent of the class file/stylesheet.  It would be really great if  
this argument accepted a function that relied on an Org-mode  
stylesheet that the user could customize to support arbitrary semantic  
elements.  Perhaps this is already possible, but I haven't figured it  
out yet.

I don't know the answer to your related question.  I just use literal  
links for a while when I need them, then set them back to descriptive  
links when I'm done.  I agree that being able to do this on a link by  
link basis would be useful.

All the best,
Tom

>
>>
>> HTH,
>> Tom
>>
>> On Oct 31, 2010, at 4:37 AM, Sébastien Mengin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering if a marker was available for smallcaps?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> --
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