On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>wrote:

> On 10/21/11 12:59 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
>  So, using your above mentioned example, after the first PROPERTY line,
>> euro=1.3795 and SALESTAX not set, while after the second one
>> salestax=.15, and euro is unset? That would be quite bad.
>>
>
> That's what I'd expected, but actually, euro is set and salestax is not.
> Apparently subsequent PROPERTY lines are ignored if they try to set an
> already existing property.
>

That's bad - really bad. Because then I have to substantially change my
files.


>
>  To clarify: before, we could use #+BABEL and #PROPERTY to do similar
>> things. Now the whole #+BABEL has been removed, and only the
>> functionality from #+PROPERTY is left - correct?
>>
>
> That's my understanding. And #+PROPERTY offers equivalent functionality in
> almost every way, but not, as far as I can understand, in this corner case.
>

Then I would suggest to leave #+BABEL until these cases are also implemented
in #+PROPERTY - but I suppose, they are there for a purpose.

Cheers,

Rainer


>
> Christian
>
>


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