Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Hi,

I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:

#+begin_src org
There are no taxis, but I've got a car.

How much to Dongying?

300.

We can be there 10am tomorrow.
#+end_src

I'm not surprised that "300." got interpreted as a list item, but I
wonder if there's a way to protect against it being removed altogether.
I suppose it might be nice if a single list item with no content would
be interpreted as a paragraph, but that probably opens the door to all
kinds of weird edge cases. If there were just a way to escape it...

Thanks,
Eric

Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Samuel Wales]

verse block?

On 3/4/18, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
> exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
> followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
> translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:
>
> #+begin_src org
> There are no taxis, but I've got a car.
>
> How much to Dongying?
>
> 300.
>
> We can be there 10am tomorrow.
> #+end_src
>
> I'm not surprised that "300." got interpreted as a list item, but I
> wonder if there's a way to protect against it being removed altogether.
> I suppose it might be nice if a single list item with no content would
> be interpreted as a paragraph, but that probably opens the door to all
> kinds of weird edge cases. If there were just a way to escape it...
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
>


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Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> verse block?

Maybe, except that puts it into monospaced font, and I'd have to wrap
the whole document in a verse block...

> On 3/4/18, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
>> exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
>> followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
>> translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:
>>
>> #+begin_src org
>> There are no taxis, but I've got a car.
>>
>> How much to Dongying?
>>
>> 300.
>>
>> We can be there 10am tomorrow.
>> #+end_src
>>
>> I'm not surprised that "300." got interpreted as a list item, but I
>> wonder if there's a way to protect against it being removed altogether.
>> I suppose it might be nice if a single list item with no content would
>> be interpreted as a paragraph, but that probably opens the door to all
>> kinds of weird edge cases. If there were just a way to escape it...
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>>
>>
>>

Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Samuel Wales]

i thought that was example that monospaced it.

Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Eric S Fraga]

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On Sunday,  4 Mar 2018 at 14:07, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
> exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
> followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
> translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:

You don't say what export target you are using.  If LaTeX, you could do:

#+begin_src org
There are no taxis, but I've got a car.

How much to Dongying?

@@latex:@@300.

We can be there 10am tomorrow.
#+end_src

And probably similarly for HTML etc.

Ugly, mind you.
-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.6-191-g90607d

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Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
> exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
> followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
> translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:
>
> #+begin_src org
> There are no taxis, but I've got a car.
>
> How much to Dongying?
>
> 300.
>
> We can be there 10am tomorrow.
> #+end_src
>
> I'm not surprised that "300." got interpreted as a list item, but I
> wonder if there's a way to protect against it being removed altogether.
> I suppose it might be nice if a single list item with no content would
> be interpreted as a paragraph, but that probably opens the door to all
> kinds of weird edge cases. If there were just a way to escape it...

You could insert a zero width space between the number and the dot.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Diego Zamboni]

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Hi Eric,

I found out that adding any non-space character after the dot prevents org
from interpreting it as a list. In particular, adding a non-breaking-space
entity at the end of the line works, like this: "300.\nbsp"

Maybe other punctuations would also work and make sense in the context of
your document- see `org-entities-help` for the full list of available
entities.

--Diego


On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 11:07 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
> exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
> followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
> translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:
>
> #+begin_src org
> There are no taxis, but I've got a car.
>
> How much to Dongying?
>
> 300.
>
> We can be there 10am tomorrow.
> #+end_src
>
> I'm not surprised that "300." got interpreted as a list item, but I
> wonder if there's a way to protect against it being removed altogether.
> I suppose it might be nice if a single list item with no content would
> be interpreted as a paragraph, but that probably opens the door to all
> kinds of weird edge cases. If there were just a way to escape it...
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
>
>
>

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Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> i thought that was example that monospaced it.

Oops, you're right. But it still feels hacky.

Re: Paragraph consisting only of number and full stop disappears in export

[Eric Abrahamsen]

Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I just discovered that a paragraph disappeared from a subtree I was
> exporting, I guess because the paragraph consists of just a number
> followed by a full stop, and was interpreted as a list item. I'm
> translating subtitles, and the dialogue went:

Thanks for all the suggestions! I think I'll go with the zero-width
space before the full stop, that seems the least intrusive, and also the
least like to get "fixed" by other edits/cleanups I do.

Thanks again,
Eric