On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:

Steven Haryanto <stevenharyanto@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing an Org parser for Perl[1]. There are a few things about the
> syntax which are still unclear to me.
>
> 1. The manual says that multiple (different) in-buffer settings can be
> specified on the same line, but so far I haven't found such example
> anywhere. What is the syntax for this?

If you are referring to lines like this one:

#+OPTIONS: oddeven hideblocks

the syntax is space separated options.

From the manual (emphasis mine): "*Several setting words* can be in the same line, but you can also have multiple lines for the keyword." So I guess "setting words" mean setting's arguments (and not setting names, like specifying OPTIONS and TODO on the same line)?

What is the main purpose of your parser?

I first wrote it because I thought it would be fun, and CPAN does not have one already. The parser converts Org document into a tree of node objects, and can be a base for other efforts, like exporter to HTML/TXT/POD.