From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Michelbach Subject: Feature Proposal: Titled Paragraphs Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 15:13:09 +0200 Message-ID: <3eb58af3-c03b-4225-ec31-15321c05ceff@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------E1B10D07C903DB34A05658F6" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iNGRu-0005hx-Jc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:13:15 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iNGRt-0007T7-EJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:13:14 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x429.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::429]:32855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iNGRt-0007Ss-6B for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 09:13:13 -0400 Received: by mail-wr1-x429.google.com with SMTP id s1so13293537wro.0 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2019 06:13:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?IPv6:2a02:8071:2189:cc00:ce9b:34ca:9b3f:e9c3? ([2a02:8071:2189:cc00:ce9b:34ca:9b3f:e9c3]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id e17sm20113692wma.15.2019.10.23.06.13.10 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 23 Oct 2019 06:13:10 -0700 (PDT) Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E1B10D07C903DB34A05658F6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I often write documents in org mode that are going to be exported to PDF via LaTeX and find myself writing something like \paragraph{Lorem Ipsum} Duis ac nibh cursus, elementum ipsum quis, faucibus sapien. \paragraph{Interdum} Cras volutpat, sem eu semper ultrices, risus lacus tempor erat, eu pulvinar magna arcu sit amet massa. a lot, therefore mixing very simple Latex into my org documents simply because I want titled paragraphs. This comes with the further disadvantage that there is no syntax highlighting for it while editing. This is despite the fact that org mode already has syntax for titled things. Whenever we need a description list, we write: - Lorem Ipsum :: Duis ac nibh cursus, elementum ipsum quis, faucibus sapien. - Interdum :: Cras volutpat, sem eu semper ultrices, risus lacus tempor erat, eu pulvinar magna arcu sit amet massa. I think we should be able to use the same syntax outside of lists: Lorem Ipsum :: Duis ac nibh cursus, elementum ipsum quis, faucibus sapien. Interdum :: Cras volutpat, sem eu semper ultrices, risus lacus tempor erat, eu pulvinar magna arcu sit amet massa. -- Christoph Michelbach --------------E1B10D07C903DB34A05658F6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I often write documents in org mode that are going to be exported to PDF via LaTeX and find myself writing something like

\paragraph{Lorem Ipsum} Duis ac nibh cursus, elementum ipsum quis, faucibus sapien.

\paragraph{Interdum} Cras volutpat, sem eu semper ultrices, risus lacus tempor erat, eu pulvinar magna arcu sit amet massa.

a lot, therefore mixing very simple Latex into my org documents simply because I want titled paragraphs. This comes with the further disadvantage that there is no syntax highlighting for it while editing.

This is despite the fact that org mode already has syntax for titled things. Whenever we need a description list, we write:

- Lorem Ipsum :: Duis ac nibh cursus, elementum ipsum quis, faucibus sapien.
- Interdum :: Cras volutpat, sem eu semper ultrices, risus lacus tempor erat, eu pulvinar magna arcu sit amet massa.

I think we should be able to use the same syntax outside of lists:

Lorem Ipsum :: Duis ac nibh cursus, elementum ipsum quis, faucibus sapien.

Interdum :: Cras volutpat, sem eu semper ultrices, risus lacus tempor erat, eu pulvinar magna arcu sit amet massa.

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Christoph Michelbach
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