Re: [RFC]: Uniform indentation for lists

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi,

the indentation rules for lists in Org are ancient, and I don't thing we
want to break so many existing files.  And we certainly cannot change the
numbered bullets.

The only thing I would accept is an option to enforce 3 space indentation
on TAB, but the parser must read 2 space indentation as well.  And, as
Savayu points out, lists longer than 9 items will always be an issue.

- Carsten

On 24.6.2013, at 23:58, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> This request is a result of adding Org-mode support to Oddmuse.  (See my
> earlier mail that introduces Orgmuse).
> 
> When lists are "normalized", the sub-lists are introduced by varying
> amout of spaces depending on the type of the parent list.  It's 3 spaces
> if the parent is numbered and 2 spaces if the parent is bulleted.
> 
> 1. One
> 2. Two
>   - Bullet One
>   - Bullet Two
>     1. One
>     2. Two
> 
> Oddmuse wiki and possibly Usemod (and even other Wiki engines) do a
> linear scan of text (much like what the old org-html.el used to do) and
> emits HTML by looking at thing at point.  Having the list items
> introduced by varying amout of spaces makes the parser "more" stateful.
> 
> I was wondering whether there would be some interest in 
> 
>  1) To eliminate the separators - "." or ")" - in the numbered list 
>  2) Enhance the list repair routine so that it will alway indent by 3 spaces.
> 
> With (1) above, the earlier list becomes,
> 
> 1 One
> 2 Two
>  - Bullet One
>  - Bullet Two
>    1 One
>    2 Two
> 
> This gives a uniform indentation of 2 spaces.
> 
> 
> With (2) or (3), the earlier list becomes,
> 
> 1. One
> 2. Two
>   - Bullet One
>   - Bullet Two
>      1. One
>      2. Two
> 
> This gives an indentation of 3 spaces.  The 3 spaces could either be
> mandated by the canonical Org-markup spec or it could be ensured by the
> author of Org document himself (by using the proposed new repair option)
>