* Incorrect quantity of en-spaces
@ 2023-10-16 18:05 Tom Alexander
2023-10-18 9:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
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From: Tom Alexander @ 2023-10-16 18:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
The org-mode syntax document describes entities as:
> \NAME POST
> \NAME{}
> Where NAME and POST are not separated by a whitespace character.
and POST is defined as:
> Either the end of line or a non-alphabetic character.
So using the test document:
```
\_ Foo
```
(a backslash, underscore, three spaces, and then the word Foo)
I would expect to get only 2 en-spaces but I am getting 3. Looking at org-entities, an underscore with 2 spaces gets 2 en-spaces, whereas an underscore with 3 spaces gets 3 en-spaces, but if we match all 3 spaces as NAME then POST becomes invalid because "F" is neither the end of the line nor a non-alphabetic character, so we can only match the first two spaces as NAME.
emacs version: 29.1
org-mode version: 9bbc21df84d507e568a3ebd17e105cdb9e163784 (latest in git)
--
Tom Alexander
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2023-10-16 18:05 Incorrect quantity of en-spaces Tom Alexander
@ 2023-10-18 9:50 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-10-18 15:37 ` Tom Alexander
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From: Ihor Radchenko @ 2023-10-18 9:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tom Alexander; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
"Tom Alexander" <tom@fizz.buzz> writes:
> The org-mode syntax document describes entities as:
>> \NAME POST
>> \NAME{}
>> Where NAME and POST are not separated by a whitespace character.
>
> and POST is defined as:
>> Either the end of line or a non-alphabetic character.
>
> So using the test document:
> ```
> \_ Foo
> ```
> (a backslash, underscore, three spaces, and then the word Foo)
>
> I would expect to get only 2 en-spaces but I am getting 3. Looking at
> org-entities, an underscore with 2 spaces gets 2 en-spaces, whereas an
> underscore with 3 spaces gets 3 en-spaces, but if we match all 3
> spaces as NAME then POST becomes invalid because "F" is neither the
> end of the line nor a non-alphabetic character, so we can only match
> the first two spaces as NAME.
This appears to be a special case, not documented on org-syntax page.
When users want to add non-standard space\_ , it should not be
treated as\_ {} - with extra space after the entity. Otherwise, users
might get unexpected results during export, with additional normal space
after user-defined.
Does it make sense to you?
--
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