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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: latex checkboxes
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To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>, Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 
> > Yes, you can indeed - except for the [-] which is hardcoded. Try the
> > following:
> >
> > #LATEX_HEADER: \setbox0=\hbox{\large$\square$}
> >
> > #+BIND: org-export-latex-list-parameters (:cbon "[{\\parbox[][][c]{\\wd0}{\\large$\\boxtimes$}}]" :cboff "[{\\parbox[][][c]{\\wd0}{\\large$\\square$}}]")
> >
> > * DONE Organize party [3/4]
> >        - [ ] call people
> >        - [X] order food
> >        - [-] think about what music to play
> >        - [X] talk to the neighbors
> >
> > So the question is: why is the [-] hardcoded?
> 
> Historical reasons, I guess.
> 
> I've now pushed a patch introducing the new property `:cbtrans' for
> those check-boxes.

As expected :-) Thanks.

> Sadly, it will only work with exporters making use of
> list parsing, that is only the LaTeX exporter so far.
> 
> Btw, is there any consensus on better default values for :cbon, :cboff
> and :cbtrans? Configurability isn't an excuse for ugly standards.
> 

I don't think so - not yet in any case. I didn't even know about the
box stuff until Skip brought it up. I would have thought that the
default ones should be the simplest thing possible: [ ], [X] and [-]
in a monospaced font, something that does not need any help from
additional LaTeX packages, the kind of thing that org-list-to-latex
does.

Nick