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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Cc: emacs org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: suggestion: display of #+TITLE
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:04:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <FF36789F-8897-44F0-805D-6403E8B58EE9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrxcnsig.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk>


On Mar 16, 2010, at 5:25 PM, Dan Davison wrote:

> Might it be worth considering a special display for the #+title line  
> in
> org buffers?
>
> Currently it is easy for the title to get buried among more technical
> configuration lines like #+options, #+startup, #+seq_toto etc. One can
> take the approach of leaving #+title at the top of the document, and
> moving the other config lines elesewhere, but even so I am wondering
> whether anyone else is attracted by the idea of providing an org-title
> display property that would hide the #+title: component, and use an
> appropriate face for the title text.
>
> In some ways, the current state gives the impression that the title is
> something which becomes important during export, but is not really a  
> key
> component of document when it is being viewed in emacs. For example, I
> expect others are familiar with the experience of exporting an org  
> file
> without a title, finding that the first heading has been used as a
> title, and then going back to add in the title as an afterthought.  
> But a
> title is an important part of a document, and I thought perhaps a
> special title display would help to make the title more of a first  
> class
> citizen in org buffers?

Hi Dan,

I agree.  Maybe he same should be true for DATE and AUTHOR, maybe EMAIL?

Would you like to make a patch for this, introducing a new face
and applying it to these constructs?

- Carsten

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-18  7:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-16 16:25 suggestion: display of #+TITLE Dan Davison
2010-03-18  6:04 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-03-18 14:21   ` Dan Davison
2010-03-22  1:36     ` Dan Davison
     [not found]     ` <877hp5i1wl.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk>
2010-03-24 14:52       ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-24 20:22         ` Scot Becker
2010-03-26  3:34           ` Dan Davison
2010-03-27 21:34             ` Scot Becker
2010-03-28  2:52               ` Dan Davison
2010-03-28  7:36                 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-03-30  2:04                 ` Thomas S. Dye

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