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Re: [O] New Link Syntax: Adding ATTRIBUTES (Was: org-e-html: Including A
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William Crandall |
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Re: [O] New Link Syntax: Adding ATTRIBUTES (Was: org-e-html: Including ATTR_HTML) |
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Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:53:27 -0700 |
Hello Nicolas,
Many thanks for expanded clarity, and a new direction.
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:51 AM,
Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> 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.
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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)
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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
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