Re: Pretty org-entities in org-mode buffers

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

On Jun 5, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:42:59 -0600, "Eric Schulte" <schulte.eric@gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>> The only thing missing is a little sketch tool in Emacs, fast enough
>>> to be used while taking notes... :-)
>>>
>>
>> I often use ditaa or example blocks with artist mode when I'm taking
>> notes, but the use of artist mode isn't quite "natural" -- although I
>> doubt you could do any better encoding sketches in plain text.
>
> Carsten,
>
> I also use ditaa with artist although it's not the most pleasant
> experience unfortunately.  I find artist mode very useful but also
> rather idiosyncratic at times...
>
> More importantly, there are some issues with the interaction between
> org-mode and artist diagrams, specifically that org-mode sometimes
> interprets artist diagrams as tables (e.g. if you have a vertical line
> as the first non-whitespace character on every line of the diagram,
> something that often happens when drawing a graph, say.  Once org-mode
> has decided that the diagram is actually an org table, editing in
> source mode no longer works.
>
> For instance, the following diagram (something to do with heat
> exchanger networks, if you really want to know ;-) is interpreted as a
> table:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #+begin_src ditaa :file test.png :result file
>    |
>    | ------------>
>    |		
>    |		
>    | <---------
>    |	
>    |	
>    |	  ----------->
>    |
>    |
> #+end_src
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> There is, of course, an easy way out which is to type any character
> other than a | as the first non-whitespace character of the first
> line...

Hi Eric,

under what circumstances does Org interpret this as a table?
Not during export, I find.  Editing should be done with C-c '
I now see that this does indeed not work in this case.... :(

>
> I guess org-mode should not be interpreting anything between begin_src
> and end_src lines?

Certainly trying to do this...

- Carsten