From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com
Cc: emacs-orgmode list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emphasis etc. in #+CAPTION:
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:52:27 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ACD5966F-86F7-4509-A426-CEC1F3B758CF@tsdye.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32037.1269825277@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org>
On Mar 28, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Thomas S. Dye <tsd@tsdye.com> wrote:
>
>> I see in the Org Manual that:
>>
>> You can make words *bold*, /italic/, _underlined_, =code= and
>> ~verbatim~, and, if you must, ‘+strike-through+’. Text in the
>> code
>> and verbatim string is not processed for Org-mode specific syntax,
>> it is exported verbatim.
>>
>> So a caption like this doesn't export italicized a, b, c, and d
>> (presumably because this is a code string):
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> IIUC, it's not because it's a code string but simply because the
> caption
> is not processed for emphasis (or anything else for that matter - see
> below). I think the above text in the manual covers the generic case,
> but captions were probably added afterwards and they didn't get the
> emphasis treatment.
>
>>
>> #+CAPTION: Pumice collected from pāhoehoe flows at Manini`ōwali:
>> /a/, pieces that sink in fresh water; /b/, pieces without obvious
>> crystallization or coating (Category A); /c/, pieces with obvious
>> crystallization but no coating (Category B); /d/, pieces with
>> obvious coating (Category C). The scale is 1 cm.
>>
>> Is there a common work-around for this that will produce correct
>> LaTeX
>> and HTML using the org-mode exporters?
>>
>
> Can't think of any workaround within org-mode. Post-processing the
> output to replace /a/ with \emph{a} for LaTeX and <i>a</i> for HTML,
> perhaps restricted to captions, seems possible (but ugly).
>
>> And, this is just a question and not a feature request or a request
>> for changes to org-mode, would it be hard to change org-mode's
>> behavior so that markup like /a/ in the #+CAPTION: string exports
>> correctly marked-up text to LaTeX and HTML?
>>
>
> I think this is the way it works currently:
>
> in org-exp.el:org-export-attach-captions-and-attributes() sets text
> properties
> on the following line (the first line of a table or the line
> containing a link)
> as follows:
>
> ...
> (add-text-properties (point-at-bol) end
> (list 'org-caption cap
> 'org-attributes attr
> 'org-label label))
>
> The various exporters then retrieve the caption with something like
> the
> following code (this is one of the three calls in org-latex.el; the
> other calls in this exporter, and the other exporters as well, are
> similar):
>
> (let*
> ...
> (caption (org-find-text-property-in-string 'org-caption raw-
> path))
> ...
>
> This just gets the value of the given text property without further
> elaboration. So I'd guess it's possible to change these calls so that
> these values are passed through various filters (emphasis is one of
> them, but maybe there are others?) before the exporters get them,
> but it
> is not done today.
>
> But maybe I'm full of it, and somebody will come up with a better
> idea.
>
> Cheers,
> Nick
>
Thanks Nick,
That seems to work. I'll test it a bit to make certain, but right now
the italics in the legend look very good in place of /a/, etc., so
there is some progress.
All the best,
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-29 4:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-28 19:14 Emphasis etc. in #+CAPTION: Thomas S. Dye
2010-03-29 1:14 ` Nick Dokos
2010-03-29 4:52 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2010-03-29 12:20 ` Carsten Dominik
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