Re: New Link Syntax: Adding ATTRIBUTES

[tsd@tsdye.com (Thomas S. Dye)]

William Crandall <bc3141592@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello Nicolas,
>
> Many thanks for expanded clarity, and a new direction.
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:51 AM,
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I understand your problem, but inserting ATTR_HTML
>> keywords in a paragraph isn't possible anymore. I cannot
>> allow that as it would defeat a fundamental change in the
>> new Org syntax.
>
> This is good. While not familiar with the details, I clearly
> see the value of maintaining the logical integrity of the new
> architecture.
>
>> ATTR_HTML could ... accept a list of properties that would
>> be applied in order to each link in the paragraph.  But it
>> wouldn't scale well...
>
> Agreed; this is not the way to go.
>
>
>> I'm open to any other suggestion. For example, link's
>> syntax could be extended to allow attributes.
>
> I like this idea, and think it is the way to go.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> One approach would be to expand the current link syntax
> from TWO to THREE pairs of square brackets.
>
> Current syntax:
> http://orgmode.org/org.html#Link-format
>
> New syntax:
>
> [[link]]
>
> [[link][description]]
>
> [[link][description][ATTRIBUTES]]
>
>
> Description and attributes would be optional.
>
> ATTRIBUTES would consisting of name:value pairs, perhaps
> giving names export-type prefixes, such as HTML_STYLE and
> HTML_TITLE, or LATEX_PDFBORDER and LATEX_URLCOLOR.
>
> HTML ATTRIBUTES would map to HTML 'attributes':
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/section-index.html#attributes-1
>
> LATEX ATTRIBUTES would map to Latex \hypersetup 'options':
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks#.5Chyperref
> (Subsection: Customization)
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> This would be a significant change, but it would make LINKS
> "first class objects," and allow Org mode users to directly
> apply rich families of link attributes/options.
>
> The Manual should then indicate that ATTR_HTML is a
> /paragraph/-level mechanism, and is no longer intended
> for use with links:
> http://orgmode.org/org.html#Links-in-HTML-export
>
> There may, of course, be different/better solutions.
>
> Thanks for continuing to move this forward!
>
> -BC
>
>

Is Samuel Wales' extensible syntax proposal germane?
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10204/match=link+syntax

All the best,
Tom

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