From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: Some projects Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2015 15:43:21 +0100 Message-ID: <87mvv7ypot.fsf@wmi.amu.edu.pl> References: <87wpub9jts.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53926) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqMWB-0000kX-0G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 10:43:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqMW7-0005pC-QS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 10:43:30 -0400 Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:43647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZqMW7-0005oO-J3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2015 10:43:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wpub9jts.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nicolas Goaziou Cc: Org Mode List On 2015-10-25, at 14:08, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to see some features moving forward, and some important issues > fixed, hopefully, in the next months. I'm sharing them here so that > anyone interested can help. > > > * Features > > ** Citations > > Development apparently stopped for some reason. We have a citation > syntax for Org in wip-cite and some work done in wip-cite-awe and > probably elsewhere. > > I think we could at least provide features defined in Org Ref using the > new syntax (minus hydra/helm related functions). > > We don't need a silver bullet. Just something with a non-empty user > base, and extensible. In any case, the work done so far shouldn't be > wasted. Interesting. I don't use Org for writing scientific articles, but many people do, and this might be really helpful. > ** Annotations > > It would be nice to allow annotating text in Org. I already made > a proposal for that feature a few months ago, without much success. > Anyway, I'd like to implement it, in a simplified form. For the record, > the idea is to use some markup for beginning and end of an annotation, > e.g., > > [@:id].....[@] > > and store text within a dedicated section, > > * Annotations > > [@:id] ... > > Like footnotes, you could easily browse remotely annotations at point. > However, they would be, at least at the beginning, completely ignored > during export. That sounds interesting, though I don't really see much difference between this and plain simple comments. > ** Backslash escaping > > Allowing to escape some symbols in plain text (e.g., emphasis markers, > square brackets...) would remove a limitation in verbatim/code objects. > As a small benefit, it would also permit to implement mid-word markup: > b*o*ld. > > There are some gotchas, however. And this one is probably the most interesting to me. If I can help (testing, suggestions, maybe coding - I'm in the process of transferring copyright for my Emacs/Org-mode/AUCTeX contributions to the FSF), please let me know. > Here we are. I hope finding enough spare time (it also depends on the > quantity of bugs to fix...) to investigate most, if not all of these > issues. Of course, feedback is welcome. > > Regards, Best, -- Marcin Borkowski http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Adam Mickiewicz University