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Subject: Re: information/feature request: org analog to latex \description
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Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:19:57 -0700
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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)
>
>
> Are you aware of this syntax?

No, I was not aware of that, it is exactly what I was after.

Thanks -- Eric