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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com>,
	emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Should comments break paragraphs?
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2013 14:57:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878v15jqdy.fsf@bzg.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ip09k1d4.fsf@gmail.com> (Nicolas Goaziou's message of "Wed, 17 Jul 2013 11:00:07 +0200")

Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> writes:

>   1. an item
>   # a normal line breaking the list
>   1. an item in another list
>
> but, upon exporting, both items will belong to the same list. This is
> just nonsensical.

Users who want comments to be equivalent to empty lines will not write
the above.  If they do, it's their responsability.

>> A simple (setq org-export-ignore-comments t) would put the user in
>> the second situation, where comments are deleted before parsing and
>> exporting, and treated as standard citizens when manipulating or
>> buffers.  (Eric's patch goes into that direction.)
>
> And the direction is wrong... Parsing shouldn't modify the buffer being
> parsed, ever. But you can use a hook for that purpose.

I didn't suggest that parsing should modify the before: I said "where
comments are deleted before parsing and exporting".

There should be an easy solution for that.

>> Then (setq org-export-ignore-comments nil) would put us in the first
>> situation, which is the current one, where comments are defines as
>> elements within Org syntax, with some constraints when parsing or
>> exporting them (such as separating a paragraph.)
>>
>> What do you think?
>
> I still think the same. Comments belong to Org syntax (if they don't,
> you can't even fill them correctly, for example). If you redefine them,
> there's no easy workaround.

I didn't suggest to redefine comments.

> You have to change every part of Org that
> assumes there will be no comment in its way (lists, agenda, babel,
> parser and probably more I can't think of).
>
> If it's an HTML/ODT export issue, it's far easier to patch the export
> back-ends instead. 10 lines of code in each one, maybe.

This is a general pre-export issue, it does not depend on the
exporters themselves.

So again, what prevents us to make it easy for users to treat comments
as no-line before parsing and exporting?

-- 
 Bastien

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-17 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-15 18:48 Should comments break paragraphs? Kodi Arfer
2013-07-15 18:54 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-15 22:46   ` Christian Wittern
2013-07-16  6:53     ` Rainer M Krug
2013-07-16  6:59     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  7:09       ` Rainer M Krug
2013-07-16  7:40         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  8:09           ` Rainer M Krug
2013-07-16  8:19             ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-16  8:44               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  8:55                 ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-16 17:08                 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-16  8:26             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16  8:21           ` Fabrice Popineau
2013-07-16  8:27             ` Fabrice Popineau
2013-07-16 15:46       ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-16 16:01         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-16 16:59           ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-16 17:51             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17  5:28               ` Bastien
2013-07-17  7:17                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17  8:15                   ` Bastien
2013-07-17  9:00                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 12:57                       ` Bastien [this message]
2013-07-17 13:21                         ` Rainer M Krug
2013-07-17 13:52                           ` Rasmus
2013-07-17 16:10                             ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-18  7:02                               ` Christian Moe
2013-07-18  8:31                                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-07-18  8:50                                   ` Rasmus
2013-07-18  9:50                                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-07-18  8:47                                 ` Rasmus
2013-07-17 13:28                         ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-17 14:30                           ` Bastien
2013-07-17 13:47                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 18:48                           ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-17 19:04                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 20:18                               ` Eric S Fraga
2013-07-17  7:11               ` Suvayu Ali
2013-07-17 12:54               ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-17 13:52                 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-07-17 22:05                 ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-17 22:11                   ` Eric Schulte
2013-07-17 22:34                     ` Andreas Leha
2013-07-18 11:23                     ` Nicolas Goaziou

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