Re: Short captions

[Anthony Cowley <acowley@gmail.com>]

Fraga, Eric writes:

> On Monday, 10 Feb 2020 at 23:20, Anthony Cowley wrote:
>> I am having trouble understanding how short captions are supposed to
>> work. Consider this org document:
>
> [...]
>
>> The first matches my expectations. The second is an example of taking
>> the last bit of markup as the short caption. The third seems to lose
>> the short caption altogether.
>
> I can confirm (with a slightly out of date org) this behaviour which
> does seem to be inconsistent and/or wrong.  However, I wasn't able to
> find any discussion of short captions in the org manual so I'm not sure
> if there are caveats on their use.

They are described in section 12.8 Captions <https://orgmode.org/manual/Captions.html#Captions>

I think this patch fixes the issue:

diff -ruN A/org-element.el B/org-element.el
--- A/org-element.el	2019-12-03 10:28:06.000000000 -0500
+++ B/org-element.el	2020-02-11 14:47:45.564452900 -0500
@@ -4018,14 +4018,15 @@
 	       (parsed? (member kwd org-element-parsed-keywords))
 	       ;; Find main value for any keyword.
 	       (value
-		(let ((beg (match-end 0))
-		      (end (save-excursion
-			     (end-of-line)
-			     (skip-chars-backward " \t")
-			     (point))))
-		  (if parsed?
-		      (org-element--parse-objects beg end nil restrict)
-		    (org-trim (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end)))))
+                (save-match-data 
+		  (let ((beg (match-end 0))
+		        (end (save-excursion
+			       (end-of-line)
+			       (skip-chars-backward " \t")
+			       (point))))
+		    (if parsed?
+		        (org-element--parse-objects beg end nil restrict)
+		      (org-trim (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end))))))
 	       ;; If KWD is a dual keyword, find its secondary value.
 	       ;; Maybe parse it.
 	       (dual? (member kwd org-element-dual-keywords))


Anthony