From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: [POLL] Syntax change: make \[...\] non-inline (+1) Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:48:08 -0400 Message-ID: <87wqap5mgn.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45199) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XE2hg-0002bb-Uk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:48:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XE2hb-0005Pi-0V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:48:28 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44152) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XE2ha-0005Pe-QG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 16:48:22 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XE2hZ-0001cF-DC for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:48:21 +0200 Received: from pool-173-48-174-104.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.48.174.104]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:48:21 +0200 Received: from ndokos by pool-173-48-174-104.bstnma.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 03 Aug 2014 22:48:21 +0200 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Federico Beffa writes: >> It's a bit more complicated than that: one upgrades org at some >> opportune moment, then three months/years/centuries later, tries to use >> that presentation that worked perfectly before - boom. If you go back >> and check all your old presentations each time you upgrade org, you are, >> I would guess, the exception, not the rule. I certainly don't do that > > Well, if I reuse an old presentation I usually use the old pdf. > Well, if you are lucky enough to have a static presentation that will cover the past and present as well as the future, fine. But most of mine are templates that incorporate the latest set of numbers: the old pdf will not cut it. I suspect that most people do something similar at least some of the time. It is then that that (mostly forgotten) update from a couple of weeks ago that broke backwards compatibility will bite. >> I generally put displays in separate paragraphs, I rarely use >> autofill[fn:1] and I'm happy to do M-q on individual paragraphs instead, >> but if I happen to do it on the wrong paragraph (backtraces, code >> fragments, displayed equations), undo is easy enough. > > The problem with that is that a displayed equation should NOT start a > new paragraph (in the generated LaTeX file). This is because if it > does then LaTeX puts more (vertical) space than desirable. > It's a matter of perspective: I don't expect org to replace latex (but I realize that some people do). -- Nick