Re: [PATCH] org.el: make org-paragraph-fill ignore \[...\] regions starting and ending a line

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> writes:

>> But then, you introduce a discrepancy between M-q results and Org
>> syntax. This is not optimal either.
>
> Would you mind elaborating on the discrepancy.

Ignoring \[...\] when filling the paragraph is misleading. You may
believe the object doesn't belong to the paragraph at all. I think M-q
should, on the contrary, give clues about the structure of the document.

Also, it doesn't make a difference when exporting to LaTeX, but it might
in back-ends with a different definition for paragraphs (e.g. HTML).

> I do not quite understand what do you mean. Doesn't the Org syntax
> "just" defines the result of parsing a buffer (like in most
> programming languages where indentation and line breaks are just to
> help people reading code)?

Indentation and line breaks are meaningful in Org. They are not just
syntactic sugar.

> Yes, I agree. But, given that we do not want to make \[...\] an
> `org-mode' environment for backward compatibility reasons, this
> appears to be the only alternative.

There is another alternative: use \begin{equation*}
or \begin{displaymath}. M-q does not fill those.

You're trying to solve an already solved problem, although the actual
solution doesn't suit you.


Regards,

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Nicolas Goaziou                                                0x80A93738