From: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Org-syntax: Intra-word markup
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2021 10:11:14 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+G3_PPgJyUwLZ9x56Dwq441ZdXFjnKrNagrKpGO0j3cJxhegg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <soaq1n$kdm$1@ciao.gmane.io>
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but the edge cases for
the current markup syntax are already hard enough to
implement correctly, to the point where different parts of
Org mode are inconsistent. Intra-word markup isn't viable
because there simply isn't any sane way to parse something
like *hello world*/hrm/oh no*. The other issue is that this will
degrade parsing performance because almost every
character could precede the start of a markup section.
I recommend anyone suggesting solutions try to implement
something that can parse the markup unambiguously with
lots of nasty test cases. You will likely find that it is impossible
to consistently tokenize markup, and that you have to hand
write a whole bunch of heuristics, making Org syntax even
harder to implement correctly.
Any solution that suggests extending how =/*~+_ can be
used gets a hard no from me. I could see teaching other
exporters how to interpret \emph{hello}world, but trying for
to have any sane behavior for something like
why *hello*world oh no a wild askterisk*
is not worth it.
Best,
Tom
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-12-02 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-02 10:50 Org-syntax: Intra-word markup Denis Maier
2021-12-02 11:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-02 11:30 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-02 11:36 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-02 12:01 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-02 11:42 ` Marco Wahl
2021-12-02 11:50 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-02 12:10 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-02 12:40 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-02 12:54 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-02 13:14 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-02 13:28 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-02 12:48 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-02 12:02 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-02 12:00 ` Ihor Radchenko
[not found] ` <87r1avtdjy.fsf@ucl.ac.uk>
2021-12-02 12:27 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-02 13:06 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-12-02 12:28 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-02 12:55 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-02 11:58 ` Timothy
2021-12-02 12:26 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-02 13:07 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-12-02 15:51 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-02 18:11 ` Tom Gillespie [this message]
2021-12-02 19:09 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-04 13:07 ` Org-syntax: emphasis and not English punctuation Max Nikulin
2021-12-04 16:42 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-02 20:47 ` Org-syntax: Intra-word markup Denis Maier
2021-12-02 22:44 ` Samuel Wales
2021-12-03 14:53 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-03 23:51 ` Tim Cross
2021-12-04 15:01 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-05 23:34 ` Russell Adams
2021-12-05 23:37 ` Russell Adams
2021-12-06 1:39 ` Samuel Wales
2021-12-02 19:03 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-12-02 19:34 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-02 23:05 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2021-12-02 23:24 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-03 14:24 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-03 15:01 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-04 15:57 ` Denis Maier
2021-12-04 17:53 ` Tom Gillespie
2021-12-04 18:37 ` John Kitchin
2021-12-04 21:16 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-06 10:57 ` Raw Org AST snippets for "impossible" markup Max Nikulin
2021-12-06 15:45 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-06 16:56 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-08 13:09 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-08 23:19 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-08 23:35 ` John Kitchin
2021-12-09 7:01 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-09 14:56 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-09 16:11 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-12-09 22:27 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-01-03 14:34 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-04 19:04 ` Org-syntax: Intra-word markup Timothy
2021-12-04 21:48 ` Tom Gillespie
2021-12-06 10:59 ` Max Nikulin
2022-01-28 14:52 ` Max Nikulin
2022-01-29 3:13 ` Ihor Radchenko
2022-01-29 13:05 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-02-02 15:28 ` Max Nikulin
2022-02-02 20:01 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-02-03 12:10 ` Max Nikulin
2021-12-06 11:01 ` Denis Maier
2022-01-28 12:12 ` [PATCH] Intra-word markup: \relax Max Nikulin
2022-01-28 13:13 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2022-02-02 15:42 ` Max Nikulin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-12-02 13:36 Org-syntax: Intra-word markup autofrettage
2021-12-02 15:24 ` Robert Pluim
2021-12-02 17:11 ` autofrettage
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