From: Ethan Ligon <ligon@are.berkeley.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [PATCH] Problem with html export of description list items
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 00:38:36 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20110406T023109-364@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110406T011110-551@post.gmane.org>
Ethan Ligon <ligon <at> are.berkeley.edu> writes:
>
> I've just stumbled across what I regard as a bug in the html export of
> description list items.
>
> The problem has to do with whether the specification of a description
> list includes a trailing space or not; i.e., whether "- Item ::" is
> treated the same way as "- Item :: ". LaTeX export treats these as
> identical. Html export gets confused about what the description list
> item is, and winds up generating a "???" for the description.
>
Having done the work to describe the problem, it wasn't hard to find a
solution. In this case that's a one character change to a regexp in
org-html.el.
Here's the patch:
diff --git a/lisp/org-html.el b/lisp/org-html.el
index d19d88b..005a0f7 100644
--- a/lisp/org-html.el
+++ b/lisp/org-html.el
@@ -2501,7 +2501,7 @@ the alist of previous items."
(concat "[ \t]*\\(\\S-+[ \t]*\\)"
"\\(?:\\[@\\(?:start:\\)?\\([0-9]+\\|[A-Za-z]\\)\\]\\)?"
"\\(?:\\(\\[[ X-]\\]\\)[ \t]+\\)?"
- "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::[ \t]+\\)?"
+ "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::[ \t]*\\)?"
"\\(.*\\)") line)
(let* ((checkbox (match-string 3 line))
(desc-tag (or (match-string 4 line) "???"))
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-06 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-06 0:07 [Bug] " Ethan Ligon
2011-04-06 0:38 ` Ethan Ligon [this message]
2011-04-07 12:51 ` [PATCH] " Nicolas Goaziou
2011-04-07 21:52 ` Ethan Ligon
2011-04-08 11:53 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2011-04-08 17:46 ` [PATCH] Fix for html & docbook " Ethan Ligon
2011-04-09 3:19 ` [PATCH] Problem with html " Ethan Ligon
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