* How does =org-md-item= produce the correct indentation for nested lists?
@ 2024-04-13 4:07 Rohit Patnaik
2024-04-13 19:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rohit Patnaik @ 2024-04-13 4:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
I was looking at the implementation for =org-md-item=, in ox-md.el, and I'm
wondering how indentation logic for nested lists works. Specifically, I was
looking at the following code:
#+BEGIN_SRC elisp
(concat bullet
(make-string (- 4 (length bullet)) ? )
(pcase (org-element-property :checkbox item)
(`on "[X] ")
(`trans "[-] ")
(`off "[ ] "))
(let ((tag (org-element-property :tag item)))
(and tag (format "**%s:** "(org-export-data tag info))))
(and contents
(org-trim (replace-regexp-in-string "^" " " contents))))
#+END_SRC
and I'm wondering why it's adding indentation in front of the bullet. Naively, I
would expect the result of this snippet, for an unordered list to be something
like:
=- [item contents]=
That is, it concatenate the bullet, then three spaces (4 - length of bullet),
then another four spaces, then the contents of the item. Instead, what I see is
a four-space indent, followed by the bullet and its padding, followed by the
item contents:
= - [item contents]=
This is the correct result, but I don't see how the code from ox-md.el produces
that result.
The reason I'm asking is because I have similar logic in the org-mode exporter
I'm writing for PMWiki markup:
https://github.com/quanticle/ox-pmwiki/blob/master/ox-pmwiki.el#L214
and I would like to change the logic so that instead of indenting with spaces,
it repeats the list marker (** for a second level nested list, *** for 3 levels
of nesting, etc).
Thanks,
Rohit Patnaik
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* Re: How does =org-md-item= produce the correct indentation for nested lists?
2024-04-13 4:07 How does =org-md-item= produce the correct indentation for nested lists? Rohit Patnaik
@ 2024-04-13 19:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-14 5:51 ` Rohit Patnaik
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Ihor Radchenko @ 2024-04-13 19:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Rohit Patnaik; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
"Rohit Patnaik" <quanticle@quanticle.net> writes:
> #+BEGIN_SRC elisp
> (concat bullet
> ...
> (and contents
> (org-trim (replace-regexp-in-string "^" " " contents))))
> #+END_SRC
>
> and I'm wondering why it's adding indentation in front of the bullet. Naively, I
> would expect the result of this snippet, for an unordered list to be something
> like:
>
> =- [item contents]=
>
> That is, it concatenate the bullet, then three spaces (4 - length of bullet),
> then another four spaces, then the contents of the item. Instead, what I see is
> a four-space indent, followed by the bullet and its padding, followed by the
> item contents:
>
> = - [item contents]=
>
> This is the correct result, but I don't see how the code from ox-md.el produces
> that result.
The code makes use of the CONTENTS.
If you have nested lists
- item
- sub-item
- sub-sub-item
"sub-sub-item" transcoder will receive CONTENTS="sub-sub-item" and return
- sub-sub-item
then, "sub-item" transcoder will receive CONTENTS="sub-item" + output of
nested transcoder -
CONTENTS=
sub-item
- sub-sub-item
and add 4 spaces to each line, except first:
- sub-item
- sub-sub-item
then, item transcoder will receive the result of the two nested
transcoders:
CONTENTS=
item
- sub-item
- sub-sub-item
yielding
- item
- sub-item
- sub-sub-item
Hope, it clarifies things.
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* Re: How does =org-md-item= produce the correct indentation for nested lists?
2024-04-13 19:26 ` Ihor Radchenko
@ 2024-04-14 5:51 ` Rohit Patnaik
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Rohit Patnaik @ 2024-04-14 5:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ihor Radchenko; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
Yes, that clarifies things quite a bit. I thought that the contents of the list
item only included that specific item, when in reality it includes the item and
all sub-lists.
Thanks,
Rohit
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