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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Should comments break paragraphs?
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:59:19 +0200
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Hello,

Christian Wittern <cwittern@gmail.com> writes:

> Hmm.  In my book, the concept of comments implies that they should be
> able to appear on any line in the text, without altering the meaning
> of the context it appears in.  So to me, it would seem necessary to
> treat comments as special, different from other elements.

I don't think comments make much sense anywhere in Org (e.g., in an
example block or in a source block). Also Org has no inline comment
syntax (and I don't think it needs one: it is no programming language).
So comments do not really fit in paragraphs.

Last, but not least, it is also easier to parse it that way.

Now, if you want to improve comments anyway, you can always provide
patches. There's some non-trivial work involved, though.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou