From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sebastian Rose Subject: Re: information/feature request: org analog to latex \description environment Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:04:54 +0200 Message-ID: <87prndghe1.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> References: <87od2xw1fj.fsf@gmail.com> <87zlmhgjnv.fsf@kassiopeya.MSHEIMNETZ> <8763p5vz05.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdAag-0000CK-C2 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:17:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KdAae-0000AK-Ot for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:17:38 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59520 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KdAae-0000AA-Kr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:17:36 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:37590) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KdAMX-0005jJ-6S for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:03:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <8763p5vz05.fsf@gmail.com> (Eric Schulte's message of "Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:35:22 -0700") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Schulte Cc: emacs-orgmode Mailinglist Hi Eric, "Eric Schulte" 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:
Term1
description (try to press ALT-RET here)
Term2
description (try to press ALT-RET here)
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. Regards, -- Sebastian Rose, EMMA STIL - mediendesign, Niemeyerstr.6, 30449 Hannover Tel.: +49 (0)511 - 36 58 472 Fax: +49 (0)1805 - 233633 - 11044 mobil: +49 (0)173 - 83 93 417 Email: s.rose@emma-stil.de, sebastian_rose@gmx.de Http: www.emma-stil.de