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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>
To: Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] org-faq.org: Inline comments
Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2023 09:31:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilauagvy.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u8atcc$a1p$1@ciao.gmane.io>

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>> The proposed FAQ entry is overwhelming. It would work fine as a blog,
>> but not as a quick answer to a question. I recommend leaving only the
>> @@comment:...@@ part
>
> See a shortened variant.

Thanks!

>> - it is what we use ourselves in WORG sources.
>
> I have not found it in the worg repository. There are enough @@html:@@ 
> with a handful of @@latex:@@.

Yeah, not in WORG.
https://orgmode.org/quickstart.html#text-comments

> +** Is it possible to add inline comments?
> +:PROPERTIES:
> +:CUSTOM_ID: inline-comments
> +:END:
> +
> +Unfortunately [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Comment-Lines.html][comments]]
> +in Org mode are block-level elements, so they break paragraphs.

Please, avoid "unfortunately". This reads kinda strange.
Comments do break paragraphs, which is our design decision. Some people
like it, some don't.

> +It is safer to avoid export snippets having no other content before or after them
> +on the same line.
> +#+begin_src org
> +The following line may become a patagraph separator.
> +@@comment: might give unexpected effect @@
> +Put some text before @@comment: a better variant
> +@@ and after instread.
> +#+end_src

May you please elaborate?
If you see inline export block starting a paragraph, it is a bug.

> +Alternatives are:
> +a [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Macro-Replacement.html][macro]]
> +expanding to nothing,
> +a [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Adding-Hyperlink-Types.html][custom link type]]
> +exporting to empty string,
> +[[https://orgmode.org/manual/Structure-of-Code-Blocks.html][source code blocks]]
> +with exporting and evaluation suppressed through default header arguments.

Again, this is not helpful as FAQ entry. We do not need to provide
overwhelming number of possibilities here.

> +Unfortunately sites for hosting of open source code projects
> +do not support such tricks and inline comments may appear in formatted
> +=README.org= or other files.

Why do we need to mention it here?
If you really want to explain this problem, it should be a dedicated FAQ
entry. Rendering Org files on Github and other sites has many more
problems not limited to inline export snippets.

-- 
Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
Org mode contributor,
Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>


  reply	other threads:[~2023-07-08  9:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-22  0:04 Inline comments ypuntot
2023-06-22  1:50 ` Max Nikulin
2023-06-28 15:51   ` [PATCH] org-faq.org: " Max Nikulin
2023-06-29 10:47     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-06-30 10:34       ` Max Nikulin
2023-07-01 10:48         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-08-06 18:34           ` Bastien Guerry
2023-07-01 15:24         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-07-02  5:46           ` Org FAQ design (Re: [PATCH] org-faq.org: Inline comments) Max Nikulin
2023-07-08  5:48       ` [PATCH v2] org-faq.org: Inline comments Max Nikulin
2023-07-08  9:31         ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2023-07-10 16:09           ` Max Nikulin
2023-09-01 11:28             ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-15 12:17               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-17 14:44                 ` Max Nikulin
2024-04-20 11:14                   ` Trailing whitespace after export snippets without a transcoder (was: [PATCH v2] org-faq.org: Inline comments) Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-20 15:02                     ` Trailing whitespace after export snippets without a transcoder Max Nikulin
2024-04-21 13:00                       ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-22 10:45                         ` Max Nikulin
2024-04-22 19:01                           ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-04-25 10:54                             ` Max Nikulin
2024-04-28 11:19                               ` Ihor Radchenko
2024-05-19 10:04                                 ` Ihor Radchenko

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