From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carsten Dominik Subject: Re: Re: Feature request (org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 19:59:46 +0200 Message-ID: References: <877i2g53px.fsf@fastmail.fm> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v935.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MDj8W-0007AO-I9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:59:56 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MDj8S-00076G-Q5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:59:56 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48034 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MDj8S-000769-NI for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:59:52 -0400 Received: from mail-ew0-f210.google.com ([209.85.219.210]:64414) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDj8S-000818-58 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:59:52 -0400 Received: by ewy6 with SMTP id 6so6616405ewy.42 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 10:59:50 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Baoqiu Cui Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:37 AM, Baoqiu Cui wrote: > Hi Carsten, > > Carsten Dominik writes: > >> Possible solutions: >> >> 1. Allow #+begin_example and friends to be indented and remove the >> same >> amount of whitespace from all example lines as the #+begin line >> has. >> This is possible, but would require a lot of work in the LaTeX >> exporter. >> It would also cause a lot of problems with the edit-source-code >> stuff >> with "C-c '", because we could then no longer use indentation >> functionality while editing the examples. Option (1) will be implemented in 6.28, option (2), which was implemented temporarily is deprecated or may be removed. - Carsten >> >> 2. Adapt the LaTeX exporter to work like the HTML exporter, ignoring >> indentation of tables and example. The, introduce a special list >> item like "- ___" to explicitly terminate a list if this should be >> necessary. >> >> I welcome comments on this issue. > > Thanks for looking into this problem! Personally I would prefer > option > 1) if it does not require too much work. Supporting indented tables > and > #+begin_example etc. in Org-mode plain lists not only makes list > structure look cleaner, but also fits well in Org-mode's powerful > structure editing functionality (org-do-promote/demote already > supports > lot of automatic indentation today, including tables and ": ..." > example lines.). > > Option 2) is a very good compromise, because it is cheap to implement, > and, for *most* of the times, people do not need to use "- ___" in > their > lists. > > The only problem with option 2) is that, to terminate an ordered list > that has N items, do we have to use something like "(N+1). ___"? > Number > N+1 here makes the list look a little bad. Also, "+ ___" and "* ___" > may be required for list item starting with `+' or `*'. > > Baoqiu > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode