stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com> writes:

> Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 3:08 PM stardiviner <numbchild@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  I found Org Mode tags does not support tag like "COVID-9", The dash character "-" is not supported.
>>
>>  Can Org Mode support the dash char because it is very often used.
>>
>> This is not a good idea, because searches can be built with +tag and -tag .
>>
>> Use COVID9 or COVID_9 instead.
>
> I see, thanks.

BTW you could use some kind of decoration for the visual representation
of tags e.g. an image of a corona-virus.  This is the idea of
https://melpa.org/#/org-pretty-tags.  You could even use "COVID-19" as
replacement for "COVID19" but possibly this brings too much confusion.


Hopefully not too shameless at plugging,
-- Marco