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Re: [O] [RFC] Creole-style / Support for **emphasis**__within__**a word*


From: Suvayu Ali
Subject: Re: [O] [RFC] Creole-style / Support for **emphasis**__within__**a word**
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 12:32:46 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.22.1-rc1 (2013-10-16)

On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 01:06:35AM +0100, Marcin Borkowski wrote:
> Dnia 2014-03-22, o godz. 16:30:31
> Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden> napisaƂ(a):
> 
> > > Also, there is no "backward-compatibility squad", only users who
> > > care about what they like.
> > 
> > That is what they want us to believe! :)
> 
> Ninja'd!
> 
> Re: topic: one idea that is maybe not very Org-ish, but seems
> reasonable: Org already uses LaTeX syntax for sub/superscripts, and
> accepts LaTeX snippets etc.  Why not allow \textbf{something} parallel
> to *something*?  Would it break something?  When using the LaTeX
> exporter, currently it seems (from very few simple experiments), that
> \textbf{whatever} copies "whatever" verbatim to the file (I tried LaTeX
> and HTML exporters).

Often LaTeX users tend to forget (including myself) one of Org's
features is to be able to export to different backends without major
modifications to the source file (.org file).

Your proposal breaks that.

-- 
Suvayu

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