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Re: Should page break (^L) work as paragraph element separator and be in


From: Max Nikulin
Subject: Re: Should page break (^L) work as paragraph element separator and be included into Org syntax? (was: [BUG] org-fill-paragraph doesn't handle ^L correctly)
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2022 17:48:13 +0700
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On 27/09/2022 03:13, Tim Cross wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
On 26/09/2022 18:39, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Should we add page break (^L) to our syntax? It sounds like a reasonable
addition for a text-based markup.

I do not have strong opinion. It is a control character while I prefer explicit 
markup and
printable characters or commands in such case. On the other hand the character 
is widely
used in .el files.

Users may expect \newline when ^L is exported to LaTeX.

I think I'm with you as well. I don't have a strong opinion and while
personally, I don't like control characters used as part of the syntax,
^L is often used in elisp files, so ......

Matt, could you, please, provide some details concerning your use case for ^L in Org files? Even if nothing will change this time, it may affect later decisions.

On 27/09/2022 13:21, Robert Klein wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:10:49 +1000
> Matt Beshara wrote:

>> Fair enough.  If the consensus from others is that ^L should be
>> recognised as a paragraph separator and the code is eventually
>> written to make that work, that would be nice, but as it stands I
>> can just start adding newlines after ^L.
>
> Actually ^L is a *page* separator (to be exact “FORM FEED”).

I have realized that page separator for plain text is not necessary paragraph separator. The same paragraph may continue on the next page. It makes things more tricky. ^L should be kept on its own line while text around should be wrapped.

However from a discussion happened a year ago I concluded that it may be not so trivial to tune `org-fill-element' for special cases.

Timothy. Re: [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations. Sun, 03 Oct 2021 16:50:54 +0800. https://list.orgmode.org/875yueij6r.fsf@gmail.com



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