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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow to export to ascii custom link types as notes
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 09:13:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874jijaukf.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ugucve$12l4$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

> it was discussed that attempts to customize export to plain text of link 
> types such as "elisp:" and "shell:" break formatting as notes at the end 
> of the heading (`org-ascii-links-to-notes').
>
> The attached patches is a draft implementing this feature (new functions 
> are not documented yet).
>
> For ascii backend :export function from `org-link-parameters' may return 
> (PATH . DESCRIPTION) `cons' instead of string. Depending on chosen link 
> style it will be exported as "[DESCRIPTION]" with the "[DESCRIPTION] 
> PATH" note at the end of heading or as the inline reference "DESCRIPTION 
> (PATH)".

This is non-standard. We should document it somewhere in the manual.

> I believe that parenthesis should be skipped in the case of angle 
> brackets "(<URI>)", but I do not change this behavior. There is some 
> inconsistency in respect to brackets for description of inline links, 
> but it is preserved as well.

May you elaborate?

> I do not like that :export functions are called twice: for text and for 
> note. In my opinion it is better to collect links in a property of INFO 
> to later format notes at the end of the heading. I would consider more 
> dense style of notes with list markers instead of empty line as separator.

Again, may you elaborate?

> +           (if (string-match-p "\\`\u200b*\\[.*\\]\u200b*\\'" anchor)
> +               anchor
> +	     (format "[%s]" anchor))

This is out of scope of the patch, isn't it?
I can see the motivation, but we should probably move this change to a
separate patch and discussion thread.

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  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-22  9:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-20 17:21 [RFC][PATCH] Allow to export to ascii custom link types as notes Max Nikulin
2023-10-22  9:13 ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-10-22 17:05   ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-23  9:17     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-23 11:00       ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-23 12:09         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-24  8:11           ` Max Nikulin
2023-10-24 10:40             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-24 15:06               ` [PATCH] ox-ascii.el: Consistently add brackets around links (was: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Allow to export to ascii custom link types as notes) Max Nikulin
2023-10-25 10:34                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-26 16:46                   ` man pages references (Re: [PATCH] ox-ascii.el: Consistently add brackets around links) Max Nikulin
2023-11-05 12:08                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-27 14:36               ` [RFC][PATCH] Allow to export to ascii custom link types as notes Max Nikulin
2023-10-25 15:16           ` [RFC][PATCH v2] " Max Nikulin
2023-11-07  9:30             ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-07 11:48               ` Max Nikulin
2023-11-07 11:58                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-08 10:23                   ` Max Nikulin
2023-11-08 10:45                     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-08 10:57                       ` Max Nikulin
2023-11-08 11:16                         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-11-09 11:12                           ` Max Nikulin
2023-11-11 11:17                             ` Ihor Radchenko

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