From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Block conventions Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 20:19:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39220 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PaCPq-0005y5-5S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:19:32 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaCPn-00017O-Hf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:19:30 -0500 Received: from mail-ey0-f169.google.com ([209.85.215.169]:33634) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PaCPn-00017A-CJ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:19:27 -0500 Received: by eyh6 with SMTP id 6so3368476eyh.0 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 11:19:26 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jeff Horn Cc: Org-mode ml On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:05 PM, Jeff Horn wrote: > Orgsters, > > I was wondering whether it is common practice to indicate source code > blocks with capital letters, as in > > #+BEGIN_SRC text > Example source block > #+END_SRC > > while indicating special blocks with lower-case, as in > > #+begin_latex > This is \LaTeX. > #+end_latex > > They both work (I think). But, I can't decide which one looks better > to my eye. What are your thoughts? I think the lower-case versions look much better and I have often cursed myself for starting out with these upper-case ones. The upper-case ones did make sense without special fontification - but now they look like FORTRAN 77. :) - Carsten > > -- > Jeffrey Horn > http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/ > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode