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[O] Re: [PATCH] Problem with html export of description list items
From: |
Nicolas Goaziou |
Subject: |
[O] Re: [PATCH] Problem with html export of description list items |
Date: |
Fri, 08 Apr 2011 13:53:43 +0200 |
Hello,
Ethan Ligon <address@hidden> writes:
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> > Ethan Ligon <ligon <at> are.berkeley.edu> writes:
>> Your patch allows items like:
>>
>> - term ::description
>>
>> which are not valid for a description list.
>
> Thanks for correcting my misunderstanding of the latex-export
> behavior. But I still think this behavior is undesirable.
I don't disagree: I was just pointing out the internals of the LaTeX
exporter in that case.
> The org manual says that a description item takes the form '- term
> :: ', and thus seems to require a space after the double colon. I
> suppose it's this that you're relying on in claiming that
> "- term ::description" is invalid.
Indeed. On the other hand, font-lock will still fontify is as
a description item, which is paradoxical.
> I agree that "- term ::description" is ugly, but the use-case that is
> giving me problems is something like
>
> - term ::
> 1. A list
> 2. Providing
> 3. The description
>
> The html export code currently allows "- term ::[ \t]+", so the above
> breaks unless there's a space or a tab following the "::". My issue
> would be addressed if we could just slightly expand the set of
> allowable white space following, so that we'd have "::[ \t\n]+".
>
> Does that seem reasonable?
It is. Or something like the slightly different "::\\(:?[ \t]+\\|$\\)".
And if the same modification is made to docbook.el (code is very
similar), that will make a good patch for the problem at hand.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou