Re: information/feature request: org analog to latex \description environment

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Hi Eric,



"Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> I was not clear enough in my original email.  I did find the method you
> describe in the orgmode mailing list archives, however I feel that (to
> me at least) the biggest benefit would be in the ability to edit files
> in org-mode with `fill-paragraph', automated line endings, and even
> bolding of the term to be defined.  Using a syntax like
>
> ,----
> | first term: and it's definition
> | second: and it's definition
> `----


How should Org distinguish those colons from other colons?


> would be much preferable to what I currently often find myself doing
> which is
>
> ,----
> | - *first term*: and it's definition
> | - *second*: and it's definition
> `----


This is what I did too :-) I even wrote a little little elisp function
to do this for me. But since a few weeks there is:


  - Term1 :: description (try to press ALT-RET here)
  - Term2 :: description (try to press ALT-RET here)


Are you aware of this syntax?

'Term' is displayed as bold text then.

Unfortunately this is currently only supported for XHTML-Export, where
this becomes a definition-list:

<dl>
  <dt>Term1</dt>
  <dd>description (try to press ALT-RET here)</dd>
  <dt>Term2</dt>
  <dd>description (try to press ALT-RET here)</dd>
</dl>


It does not work like this on LaTeX export though. But I guess this will
follow soon (it's quite a fresh feature).



> granted this is largely just synactic sugar, but small edit helpers like
> this are part of what make org so great!
>
> Do you think features like this would be generally useful and practical
> to implement?


Definetively, yes. All that's needed is some volunteer to implement the
feature in org-export-latex.el or where ever.





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