Re: LaTeX export of lists

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Latex does have the concept of lists within paragraphs in that
> paragraph boundaries are defined by blank lines.  So, if you have a
> begin{itemize}...end{itemize} with no blank lines before and after, the
> list implicitly is part of the enclosing paragraph.

That's why I talked about "LaTeXism".

> whether lists exported from org should automatically be within
> paragraphs or not is unclear.

For the record:

From Org view, lists and paragraphs are distinct elements. More
accurately, lists can hold paragraphs, but not the opposite.

From LaTeX view, it's true that a list can belong to a paragraph. But,
again, such a thing is impossible in HTML, in OpenDocument, where "the
list is a paragraph-level element"[1], and in DocBook.

So this is consistent with most of the exporters encountered in
Org. Now, to provide compatibility with LaTeX, Org export system has to
respect blank lines (or the absence thereof) in the buffer.


Regards,

[1] http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/OpenDocument-v1.1-html/OpenDocument-v1.1.html#4.3.Lists|outline

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou