From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: Roger Mason <rmason@mun.ca>, org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Italicise block of text
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:02:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k3dtxo78.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87txcx9tai.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (Eric S. Fraga's message of "Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:46:45 +0000")
Hello,
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Dunno if this makes sense, but now that we have @@html: ... @@ etc., I
>> wonder if it is worth considering @@italic: ... @@, or @@emphasis /:
>> ... @@, or @@emphasis italic: ... @@.
>> Or $[emphasis :beg "/"] ... $[emphasis :end] as previously discussed.
>
> No. Please no! We'll end up with XML before long :-(
>
> Semantically, the use of @@ is for actions that are export target
> specific whereas italic etc. are text markup and inherently export
> target neutral (generally). Very different beasts...
>
> One major attraction of org, for me, is the minimal clutter introduced
> by the language so that it doesn't get in the way of the writing.
I don't think we need another syntax for emphasis. Moreover, the three
lines limitation can be removed at some point, i.e., once we have
a powerful enough fontification system.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-21 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-14 18:45 Italicise block of text Roger Mason
2014-01-14 22:48 ` Alexander Baier
[not found] ` <52D68D5E.9010205@mun.ca>
2014-01-15 16:50 ` Alexander Baier
2014-01-19 13:22 ` Roger Mason
2014-01-21 2:40 ` Samuel Wales
2014-01-21 16:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2014-01-21 17:02 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
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