From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: A more "universal markup" for exporters with italics/quotes?
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:14:14 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft9ZFv9Rk7LigR2qJnvuVZqKh1j91hnUKH_4W9sbs+782Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In reading the recent request to specify fonts for ODT, I was reminded
of a recent problem I had. I'm writing a longer-ish document (ended up
at about 15 pages) and am primarily typesetting with LaTeX to PDF. In
sending it to others for feedback, however, they wanted something
editable for comments, so I used the ODT exporter for the first time.
Two things didn't work so well:
- italics: org doesn't handle multiple line italics in between / and
/. Thus, I use \emph{}. These didn't work with the odt exporter (nor
would they with other exporters).
- quotes: I like to indent and do interesting things with quotes. My
current preference is something like so:
#+begin_org
\begin{tabular}{p{0.5cm}p{0.85\textwidth}}
& \emph{here is my long quote...} \\
\end{tabular}
#+end_org
That also doesn't work with export to other formats.
Could there be something like #+begin_quote or some other more
"universal" indicator of italics (or other text modifiers like bold or
underline) that would work more universally? I'm thinking:
-- LaTeX: be able to specify style for quote or just use
\begin{quote}, org italic markup -> \emph{}
-- html: quote -> <blockquote></blockquote>, italics -> <i></i>
-- odt: quote -> indented block?, italics -> italics
-- others?
Just some thoughts.
John
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-18 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-18 20:14 John Hendy [this message]
2011-10-19 7:25 ` A more "universal markup" for exporters with italics/quotes? Christian Moe
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=CA+M2ft9ZFv9Rk7LigR2qJnvuVZqKh1j91hnUKH_4W9sbs+782Q@mail.gmail.com \
--to=jw.hendy@gmail.com \
--cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).