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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Macros [was: Re: ATTR_HTML for a clickable image, howto?]
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 01:23:01 +0200
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Hi François,

François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> This (partly) replies to the message I sent a few minutes ago.  Before
> sending that message, I checked in the Org manual, and the manual is
> silent about the possibility of such escaping.
>
> The manual is also silent about nesting, which has been mentioned
> elsewhere in this thread.  The examples in the manual do not hint either
> about whether newlines are allowed or not in macro arguments.

Please contribute by sending patches or more readable hints on what
should be fixed... 

> If macros are there to stay in Org, it might be worth documenting a more
> complete specification about how to define and use them.

Macros are here to stay.  Please also remember the manual cannot cover
everything -- Worg can efficiently cover topics like this one.

Thanks for your help!

-- 
 Bastien