From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Moe Subject: Re: Bug: can't use square brackets in link descriptions; Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:43:06 +0100 Message-ID: <4F28606A.5080308@christianmoe.com> References: <4F28149C.6000700@web.de> Reply-To: mail@christianmoe.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38119) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsLX4-0003sB-Hb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:46:34 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsLWz-0000Ak-Uz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:46:30 -0500 Received: from b1.hitrost.net ([91.185.211.67]:54947) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RsLWz-0008Dk-LU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:46:25 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4F28149C.6000700@web.de> 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Christoph LANGE Cc: Orgmode Mailing List Hi, One way to solve it would be with org entities. I don't think they exist for square brackets, but you could make a user-defined one. You could put something like this in your .emacs (I think plain bracket characters should work in every export format, so I haven't bothered to look up HTML entities or LaTeX commands): (setq org-entities-user '(("lbr" "[" nil "[" "[" "[" "[") ; left square bracket ("rbr" "]" nil "]" "]" "]" "]"))) ; right square bracket Then try the following -- ugly as sin, and as painful as XML entities, but it gives the output you want in whatever format: Here is a [[http://foobar.org][foo \lbr{}bar\rbr{}]] The curly bracket replacement (which I think is very reasonable, really) is currently hardcoded in org-make-link-string. If it were made customizable, that would take the pain (but not the ugliness) out of making links like the above. A backslash escape would have been nice to have, but \[...\] is already interpreted as a math environment. Yours, Christian On 1/31/12 5:19 PM, Christoph LANGE wrote: > Dear org-mode developers, > > I am desperately trying to get a square bracket into the description > of a link. > > That is, in an org file that I want to export to HTML, I would like to > have the source > > foo [bar] > > and of course I would like to avoid using XML character entities such > as b; for [, for two reasons: > > 1. It is painful. > 2. I might eventually want to export my org file to some other format > than HTML. > > I noticed this post on escaping in org links > (http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/37888), but apparently I > didn't understand it. > > I thought that escaping as %5B might work – not only in the "link" > component of a link, where it works due to the specification of URIs, > but also in the "description" component, but in the description it > doesn't work. > > Quite generally, I wonder whether there is (or, why there is not) a > generic escape character (e.g. the backslash), which would also allow > for escaping other characters of the org markup syntax, such as * or /. > > So far this was something like a feature request, but there is also > one actual bug: > > When I insert or edit a link with org-insert-link (C-c C-l) and insert > square brackets into the link description, they are rewritten to > {...}, which I do not consider acceptable. If there is any escape > syntax, they should rather be rewritten using that escape syntax. > > Thanks in advance for any pointers, > > Christoph >