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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
To: Colin Fraizer <orgmode@cfraizer.com>
Cc: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>,
	"<emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	carsten.dominik@gmail.com
Subject: Re: question about org-latex-regexps
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:35:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d38yfjtk.fsf@norang.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA4DEFC9-A7F3-495E-94D3-AD59561A57FE@cfraizer.com> (Colin Fraizer's message of "Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:22:42 -0500")

Colin Fraizer <orgmode@cfraizer.com> writes:

> Wow, I think I'm an org pariah. Did my email violate some org cultural
> norm? :-)

Not that I'm aware of :)

>
> If so, I apologize.
>
> Anyone have strong feelings about whether a change like this is
> advisable?

This should probably go to Carsten and Nicolas since they touched it
last according to

git blame -L 16840,16870 lisp/org.el

Regards,
Bernt

>
> On Feb 27, 2012, at 12:32 PM, "Colin Fraizer" <orgmode@cfraizer.com> wrote:
>
>> The variable org-latex-regexps has an element
>> 
>>    ("$" "\\([^$]\\|^\\)\\(\\(\\$\\([^
>> \r\n,;.$][^$\n\r]*?\\(\n[^$\n\r]*?\\)\\{0,2\\}[^
>> \r\n,.$]\\)\\$\\)\\)\\([-    .,?;:'\")\000]\\|$\\)" 2 nil)
>> 
>> The 6th nested subexpression (starts with "\\([-") prevents conversion of
>> some latex math-mode stuff.
>> 
>> Is there a reason for that subexpression to be so restrictive? Because I
>> mostly write UTF-8 org-mode documents, I often have "$<some math>$" followed
>> immediately by an EN DASH or EM DASH (U+2013 or U+2014). Is there a reason
>> why those characters could not be inserted in that character class?
>> 
>> That is, could I change that subexpression to be "\\([---
>> .,?;:'\")\000]\\|$\\)" ?
>> 
>> [I've tried it with a couple of files and didn't notice any problems.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> --Colin
>> 
>> 

      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-29  2:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-27 17:32 question about org-latex-regexps Colin Fraizer
2012-02-28 23:22 ` Colin Fraizer
2012-02-28 23:49   ` Bastien
2012-02-29  2:35   ` Bernt Hansen [this message]

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