Re: Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]

From: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Bug: Impossible to have right bracket in footnotes [7.01trans]
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 20:38:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin_OMz41ytEE_FSP4KZoeTd5VVcvSGCVADDQ393@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1D6BEB21-B559-469F-996D-F50C3CB0E31E@gmail.com>

One possibility for difficult cases such as these might be extensible
syntax (which is designed for parsing risk).  The idea would be to
allow, for footnotes, an alternate syntax using extensible syntax.
Then it could handle anything.  Also, it would not be necessary to
hack on the footnote code quite that hard.  With the $[ syntax, things
might be a little easier and the parsing code potentially factored in
a decent way.

Dunno if this is the easiest first use for ES, but it might be worth
considering.

On 2010-08-31, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Aidan,
>
> unfortunately this is difficult to fix in a good way.
> I do want to go back to footnotes, because I think there are many
> things that do not yet work satisfactorily.  And then I also hope to
> address the issue you raised.  For the time being, unfortunately, I do
> not have a solution for you.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Aidan Gauland wrote:
>
>> It is impossible to have closing brackets in a footnote, because they
>> are treated as the closing bracket for the foot note.  Example...
>>
>> * A heading
>> This is a broken footnote.[fn:: Some book at [42-24].]
>>
>> This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
>>                          org-fn-bug-example
>>                          ==================
>>
>> Author: Aidan Gauland
>> Date: 2010-08-31 20:33:14 NZST
>>
>>
>> Table of Contents
>> =================
>> 1 A heading
>>
>>
>> 1 A heading
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> This is a broken footnote.[1].]
>>
>> This will export to (as ASCII, for example)...
>>
>> [1] Some book at [42-24
>>
>> This is how I am required to cite books for my academic essays, so
>> this
>> is a pretty serious bug for me (and no doubt other students, as well).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aidan Gauland
>>
>> Emacs  : GNU Emacs 24.0.50.6 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
>> 2.20.1)
>> of 2010-08-29 on dimension8
>> Package: Org-mode version 7.01trans
>>
>> current state:
>> ==============
>> (setq
>> org-export-latex-after-initial-vars-hook '(org-beamer-after-initial-
>> vars)
>> org-agenda-files '("~/uc-files/uc-work.org")
>> org-agenda-include-diary t
>> org-completion-use-iswitchb t
>> org-completion-use-ido t
>> org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe)
>> org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current)
>> org-export-blocks-postblock-hook '(org-exp-res/src-name-cleanup)
>> org-export-latex-format-toc-function 'org-export-latex-format-toc-
>> default
>> org-export-preprocess-hook '(org-export-blocks-preprocess)
>> org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe
>> org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe)
>> org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer
>> org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer)
>> org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
>> org-export-first-hook '(org-beamer-initialize-open-trackers)
>> org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text)
>> org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-
>> drawers
>> org-cycle-show-empty-lines
>> 									org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change)
>> org-export-preprocess-before-normalizing-links-hook
>> '(org-remove-file-link-modifiers)
>> org-mode-hook '(#[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
>> 									 [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all
>> append local] 5]
>> 								 #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207"
>> 									 [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-
>> all
>> append local] 5]
>> 								 org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes)
>> org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute-
>> safely-maybe)
>> org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p
>> org-export-interblocks '((lob org-babel-exp-lob-one-liners) (src
>> org-babel-exp-inline-src-blocks))
>> org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter)
>> org-outline-path-complete-in-steps nil
>> org-export-preprocess-before-selecting-backend-code-hook
>> '(org-beamer-select-beamer-code)
>> org-export-latex-final-hook '(org-beamer-amend-header org-beamer-fix-
>> toc
>> org-beamer-auto-fragile-frames
>> 															 org-beamer-place-default-actions-for-lists)
>> org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe)
>> org-export-blocks '((src org-babel-exp-src-blocks nil) (comment
>> org-export-blocks-format-comment t)
>> 										 (ditaa org-export-blocks-format-ditaa nil) (dot
>> org-export-blocks-format-dot nil))
>> )
>>
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>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
>
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