Re: Problem with org-entities-user

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

On 23.9.2012, at 10:30, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> On 22.9.2012, at 10:52, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
>>> If the LaTeX command doesn't require an argument, you can always add it
>>> to `org-entities-user'.
>> 
>> Yes, even though this is not very clean by itself.
> 
> This is debatable. Entities are perfectly integrated into Org and are,
> by essence, multiple-back-end friendly.

I only mean in the sense that entities are made to insert symbols and characters, not to execute commands.  It certainly can be used to that, but this is not the intention of this mechanism.

> 
>>> Anyway this is a minor point. I guess it will be swept under the rug of
>>> historical reasons, after all.
>> 
>> Maybe not. I can go along with your arguments for cleanness. Would you
>> object to keeping this feature in as an option, turned off be default,
>> so that it is at least easy to keep lengthy files working?
> 
> I'd rather leave it as it is, then. This option would require to
> maintain two versions of the parser: one without LaTeX commands and
> another one with them. That would defeat the whole point of removing
> them.
> 
>> The way I understand it, the new exporter will be default in 8.0, so
>> this is the time to make some incompatible changes.
> 
> Indeed. I will preserve my quota of backward-incompatible changes for
> other things.


OK.

- Carsten

> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Nicolas Goaziou