Re: [Orgmode] Lists handling

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

>>>>> Karl Maihofer writes:

> These documents must be updated and will be exported to HTML
> regularly. Some documents have 500+ pages and many many of these
> "inline task" notes.

Wouldn't drawers be more appropriate here than inline tasks? Not that
it would work with a drawer either, but the examples given seem to
focus more on content than on a task title.

> My problem isn't only that the exporter does not recognize this
> structure as one single list anymore (otherwise I could use an old
> Org version) but also that indentation does not work. Nicolas
> mentioned this already and I think this was one of the reasons for
> changing the handling of lists.

I don't understand what the indentation problem you're talking about
is, but I worked on indentation wrt inline tasks recently. My work is
at:

git://github.com/ngz/org-mode-lists.git inlinetask

It might solve some of your problems.

> Does anybody see a chance to make Org recognize such "interrupted"
> lists as one list and make indentation and export to HTML work
> properly?

I'm writing down ideas to put in a future update of lists. Some
previously "unsupported anymore" stuff may appear again, after a phase
of testing on a parallel git branch.

In this context, you raise an interesting question about inline tasks.
I have my idea (read below), but a discussion about it might be
productive.

> Wouldn't it be possible to tell Org to recognize text or inline
> tasks right behind a bullet point (next line) as belonging to this
> bullet point so that Org can treat the next bullet point as part of
> the same list?

It looks to me the syntax is way too subtle to be clear. Moreover,
lists are all about indentation, and inline tasks defeat that as they
live at column 0. They also visually break any structure around.

To be honest, I'm not very enthusiastic about allowing inline tasks
within lists. On the other hand, I will definitely let drawers in,
thus my first question.

Regards,

-- Nicolas