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From: Baoqiu Cui <cbaoqiu@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request (org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists)
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:37:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <byctz5i3y6y.fsf@muchbodyking-lm.corp.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: BE648146-C304-41D4-A44C-8D3F43B937F0@gmail.com

Hi Carsten,

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> 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.
>
> 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

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-25  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-23 21:28 Feature request (org-empty-line-terminates-plain-lists) Matthew Lundin
2009-03-23 23:08 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-03-24  6:15   ` Baoqiu Cui
2009-03-24  8:48     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-24 23:13       ` Matthew Lundin
2009-03-25  6:37       ` Baoqiu Cui [this message]
2009-06-08 17:59         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-25  6:49 ` Samuel Wales

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