From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Feature request: simplify usage of special blocks (for beamer) Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:58:03 +0000 Message-ID: <87woosw378.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87a7lpxfsc.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54694) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTQO2-00073F-T4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 06:58:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTQNx-0005Sk-RM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 06:58:10 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-x42d.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::42d]:36240) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gTQNx-0005S7-LH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 06:58:05 -0500 Received: by mail-wr1-x42d.google.com with SMTP id u3so9329784wrs.3 for ; Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:58:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: (Carlos Pita's message of "Sat, 1 Dec 2018 16:23:12 -0300") 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: Carlos Pita Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Saturday, 1 Dec 2018 at 16:23, Carlos Pita wrote: > The idea is that stuff that is very specific to a backend X would be > in :attrs_X, but stuff that is related to what makes the block > semantically special could be in :args. And this is where the challenge lies! The whole point of special blocks is that org knows nothing of their semantics. They are a "black box" and it would be difficult to identify export specific elements and general elements on this basis. > Nevertheless special blocks will probably be backend specific in most > cases. Many but not all. And hence the difficulty. Sorry for being negative. I sympathize fully with your aims as I use special blocks all the time and don't particularly like the attr lines either. But I see no general solution to this. -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.14-1035-gfeb442