From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nicolas Goaziou Subject: Re: How to use em-dash as a bullet for plain text lists? Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:14:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0wta20y.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59471) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTT1C-0000wI-Tz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:14:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTT17-0007NU-VU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:14:30 -0400 Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:32805) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fTT17-0007N6-OG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 14 Jun 2018 10:14:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Grant Rettke's message of "Wed, 13 Jun 2018 22:09:12 -0500") 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: Grant Rettke Cc: Org-mode Hello, Grant Rettke writes: > Hi, > > I want to use em-dash as a bullet for plain lists. > > I read the documentation and didn't see a customization option. > > I read org-list.el only enough to get a rough idea of how it > works. org-at-item-p, org-at-item-bullet-p, org-item-re seem important for > understanding the structure. > > Before I go any further (studying or coding) > > 1. How would you go about this? > 2. Is it worth me going further on figuring out how this works and how to > do it? This is not supported and I think it shouldn't be. Since its inception, Org syntax focuses on ASCII characters. em dashes do not belong to that class. What could be possible, however, is to add UTF-8 characters as overlays on top of standard bullets. I think "org-bullet" does something like that. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou