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From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with org-entities-user
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 15:15:34 +0200
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To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>
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Hello,

tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye) writes:

> I'm not sure about support for \hfill{}, etc.  The new latex and html
> exporters pass \hfill{} through unchanged, which might be what the latex
> author wants, or what the html author writing about latex commands
> wants.

It would not change anything for the HTML author, since \hfill{} would
be exported as-is in any exporter. Though, it would be a less convenient
for the LaTeX author, who would have to type @@latex:\hfill{}@@.

On the other hand, I see at lest 3 reasons to remove support for such
constructs:

- consistency :: it's not possible to write raw HTML in an Org buffer,
                 nor raw Texinfo. LaTeX shouldn't be treated
                 differently.

- clarity :: Recently, an user expected the \cite{} command to work in
             a backend different from LaTeX.

- ecumenism :: Removing LaTeXisms will make Org documents easier to
               export to various back-ends.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou