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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: information/feature request: org analog to latex \description
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Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:46:48 +0200
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On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>
>>> ,----
>>> | first term: and it's definition
>>> | second: and it's definition
>>> `----
>>
>>
>> How should Org distinguish those colons from other colons?
>
> yes, I suppose the double colons you show below would be required
>
>>> would be much preferable to what I currently often find myself doing
>>> which is
>>>
>>> ,----
>>> | - *first term*: and it's definition
>>> | - *second*: and it's definition
>>> `----
>>
>>
>> This is what I did too :-) I even wrote a little little elisp  
>> function
>> to do this for me. But since a few weeks there is:
>>
>>
>>  - Term1 :: description (try to press ALT-RET here)
>>  - Term2 :: description (try to press ALT-RET here)

However, this syntax is only supported by the HTML backend, not by the  
LaTeX backend yet.... :-(

- Carsten