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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bastien.guerry@wikimedia.fr>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, mail@christianmoe.com,
	Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: text color + highlight
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:48:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hjx4pce.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <532CED92-88AD-46F6-BC67-9D0DEDAA6D71@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:06:38 +0200")

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Can we please first read Samuels post about extensible syntax?  Before
> we invent 20 other new syntaxes?
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10204/focus=10204

May I add this thread to the discussion as an example of another feature
that was suggested as a possible use case for extensible syntax:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/24431

This is the feature I currently want most in org-mode: org mode blocks
that behave exactly like org-mode blocks, except that their content in
reality lies in a different file. This would allow org-mode to improve
on its claim of inobtrusiveness: one could collaborate on a code project
without the other people knowing you were using org-mode to manage your
access points into the shared files. Also, I like the corollary, that a
version control system will track the code content in separate files
from the org content.

A related idea is having links with both a start and an end point:
following them would end up in a buffer to the specified region ("window
links" if window wasn't already used for a different meaning).

Any ideas welcome! (there are also ideas in that thread)

Dan


> Thanks!
>
> On Aug 10, 2010, at 8:14 AM, Christian Moe wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> >>
>> >> - this would be extensible, e.g.
>> >>
>> >>  [background[yellow] highlighted text]
>> >>
>> >>  could export to the following html
>> >>
>> >>  <span "style=background:yellow;">highlighted text</span>
>> >>
>> >> - this would avoid "{}"s
>> >>
>> >> - this would look more "org-like" than the pure latex solution
>> >>
>> >> the only issue with the above is that it may conflate a new /
>> markup/
>> >> syntax with org-mode's existing /link/ syntax.
>> >>
>> >> Thoughts? -- Eric
>>
>> I'd like an extensible inline markup construct (not primarily for
>> coloring).
>>
>> Would it make sense to hijack custom links for this purpose, and use
>> existing bracketed link syntax rather than add a new syntax?
>>
>> For semantic tagging (my chief interest), one might e.g. define a
>> class' link type and an HTML export handler to wrap the contents in
>> <span class="kewyord"> tags.
>>
>> : [[class:animals][some text about animals]]
>>
>> As for color: If one is satisfied with getting colors on export,
>> defining a `color' link type and appropriate export handlers will
>> do.
>>
>> : [[color:red][some colored text]]
>>
>> If one also wants the text to appear in the right color within Org-
>> mode, and does not want the pseudo-link markup to be underlined and
>> look like links, it would require additional Org functionality (I
>> think): User-defined custom faces for different link types.
>>
>>>>> What syntax to use...
>>>>
>>>> I've thought briefly about the following syntax
>>>>
>>>> [color[red] text to be colored red]
>>> Nope, I am against this syntax.  If we introduce a more general
>>> syntax,
>>> then it should be done in the way Samuel proposed.  WHich means
>>> we firs get a keyword indtroducing the piece, and then properties.
>>> Like
>>>   $[style :color red the red text]
>>> or
>>>   $[face :color :italic t red the red text]
>>> Something like the $ before "[" also would seem critical to
>>> disambiguate
>>> from other uses of "[".
>>> However, I am not too excited about extra syntax to get this kind
>>> of thing.
>>> Would not oppose it, but probably never use it.
>>> - Carsten
>>
>> Those examples are not very readable IMO -- without a separator it's
>> hard to see where the property values end and the marked up text
>> begins.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Christian
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-11  6:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-05 20:42 text color + highlight Vinh Nguyen
2010-08-06  9:18 ` Bastien
2010-08-06 16:47   ` Vinh Nguyen
2010-08-06 20:28     ` Seweryn
2010-08-06 21:51     ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-06 23:42       ` Vinh Nguyen
2010-08-07  3:15         ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-07  3:57           ` Dan Davison
2010-08-08 14:59           ` Vinh Nguyen
2010-08-08 21:00             ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-09  6:28               ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-09  7:37                 ` Robert Klein
2010-08-09  7:40                   ` Robert Klein
2010-08-10  6:14                 ` Christian Moe
2010-08-10  7:06                   ` Carsten Dominik
2010-08-10  9:30                     ` Christian Moe
2010-08-10 15:06                       ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-10 18:38                         ` Christian Moe
2010-08-10 21:39                           ` David Maus
2010-08-10 23:02                             ` Christian Moe
2010-08-10 23:47                               ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-11  6:48                     ` Dan Davison [this message]
2010-08-11 14:32                       ` Samuel Wales
2010-08-10 23:14                   ` Samuel Wales
2010-08-11  6:03                     ` Jan Böcker
2010-08-09  6:58               ` Eric Schulte
2010-08-09  7:05                 ` Samuel Wales
2010-08-09  5:17           ` Jambunathan K
2010-08-09  5:52             ` Noorul Islam K M
2010-08-07  4:52       ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-07 12:17       ` Sebastian Rose
2010-08-08 17:46         ` Samuel Wales
2010-09-09 16:15 ` Vinh Nguyen

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