Re: ascii-export vs. "<<" and ">>" patch

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Bryan Fink <bryan@basho.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ascii-export vs. "<<" and ">>" patch
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 09:41:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B67E7C3C-67D2-4ADE-BAD6-FECB73BEC2A2@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <473d01841001070930g19ba5a3l92beeb6a8a9c5478@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Bryan,

On Jan 7, 2010, at 6:30 PM, Bryan Fink wrote:

> Hi.  I'm using org-mode to write some documentation about Erlang
> modules.  Erlang's "binary" data type has a syntax like:
>
>   <<"this is binary data">>
>
> Org-mode's ascii-exporter in version 6.33f blindly strips all <<>>
> pairs from the file, leaving the text as
>
>   "this is binary data"
>
> which, unfortunately, is still valid Erlang syntax, but has a  
> different meaning.

First of all, you should have such code in code blocks like # 
+begin_src..., or, in running text, you need to protect it with  
something like =<<"this is binary data">>=.

Then things will work in HTML.

There is indeed a bug in ASCII export which does remove these without  
checking for protection - but I have just fixed that - so if you pull  
and protect, things should work.

HTH

- Carsten

>
> So, to help me and others write Erlang documentation in org-mode, I
> submit the patch attached to this email, which changes org-ascii.el
> such that it checks the org-protected text property before stripping
> <<>> characters, so examples marked as verbatim text should go
> untouched.
>
> -Bryan
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- Carsten