Re: [parser] subscripts and underlines interacting badly

[Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:

> I agree.  Do you think it is possible to solve the problem while
> preserving the fact that underscore is used for both subscript and
> underline?  It seems very difficult.

We could give priority to underline when there are no curly brackets,
priority to subscript otherwise. It sounds overly complicated though.

> When I think about the question, I think probably what is needed is a
> representation where object boundaries are delimited by one well-defined
> pair of delimiters, like {} in latex or <> in html (well, in html they
> delimit tags, but the principle is the same: only one pair).  Then we
> don’t have to worry about escape syntax for many characters, or
> characters with multiple possible interpretations (or how many lines
> org-emph-re is allowed to match across, or ...).
>
> But that is just one idea I have had.  You must have thought about it
> more, so maybe you have others.
>
>>
>> I'm strongly against behavioral parts in Org syntax (even though the
>> ship probably has sailed long ago). Org mode is bound to Emacs, but Org
>> format should be platform independent.
>
> Org syntax can be un-configurable even if org-element.el implements a
> (configurable) superset of it.

org-element.el is meant to implement _exactly_ Org syntax. Not
a superset of it.

> Given that the use-subscript variable exists (and without taking into
> account more systemic solutions as discussed above), I’m arguing that
> it is cleaner to implement it in org-element, rather than in two
> separate places (in the regex-based old-style parsing code in org.el
> and in ox.el; there’s also one reference to the variable in
> org-table.el(!))
>
> Phrased in other terms, it makes no sense (in the context of Org-Mode,
> not platonic Org Syntax) for org-element to insist that "a_b" is a
> subscript, if org-use-sub-superscripts =
> org-export-with-sub-superscripts = nil.

Again, `org-use-sub-superscripts' is, at the moment, a visual-only
variable. My plan is to move it out, not in.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou