Re: tables, comment in one line, export to html

[Michael Brand <michael.ch.brand@gmail.com>]

Hi

On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:

> It sounds good, as long as it is clear this markers is for export
> consumption only, and has no special effect when using the spreadsheet.
>
> I suggest to use # or <#> instead of / so as to refer to "comment" (but
> still use / as the marker for the first column).

# in non-first columns to mean noexport of the column has the
disadvantage of possible confusion with # in the first column where it
means special effect for recalculation when using the spreadsheet. As
I understand your first paragraph you want to avoid such confusion.

/ in non-first columns to mean noexport of the column as I did before
has the disadvantage of possible confusion with / in the first column
where it means noexport of the row.

<#> I find a bit too near to <5>, <, > or <>.

% or ; used for comments in LaTeX or Emacs Lisp I would find a good
space saving single character alternative. Why not % as this would not
be the first time that Org borrowed some syntax elements from LaTeX?
The glyph has also similarities to / that has a similar meaning.

> The removal could be done in a function like
> `org-export--delete-commented-rows' (see `org-export--delete-comments'
> in "ox.el").

And just to mention if someone wants to start: The non-greediness I
did before is not necessary and could be omitted for better
readability:
old: "^[ \t]*| +/ +|\\(.*?|\\)?? +\\(/\\) +|"
new: "^[ \t]*| +/ +|\\(.*|\\)? +\\(%\\) +|"

> This would also require documenting it in the manual and providing
> tests.

And a change note.

> Does anyone feel like doing that?

Let me see. If anyone wants to beat me please go ahead.

Michael