From: Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to add custom markup elements and to define custom backends?
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 09:33:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130904073310.GB679@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <22F8B30C-7CF5-42D7-8B96-E15ED2A6CE72@gmail.com>
On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 09:15:56AM +0200, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>
> On Sep 4, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > sometimes I need markup elements than missing in Org mode, for example
> > combination of both bold and italic. Some backends, for instance html
> > and latex (with minor exception) support such combinations. So I wonder
> > 1) how to define custom or new markup elements that can be used in
> > backends, if it is possible
> > 2) and how to extend or customize (write a custom backend) to take into
> > accout these new elements.
> >
>
> Hi Vladimir,
>
> Org mode does not support this directly (and to be honest, I know very few applications
> where combining different attributes makes a lot of sense).
>
> You could probably play with org-emphasis-alist and org-latex-text-markup-alist to cook something up.
> but first I would think very hard about the question if this is really needed and does not create too much visual clutter.
I agree with Carsten on the last point about visual clutter. That said,
if the OP rarely uses one of the standard mark-ups, say +strikethrough+,
then an export filter overriding the default would do just fine. For an
example, see here:
<http://orgmode.org/worg/exporters/beamer/ox-beamer.html#export-filters>
Hope this helps,
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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2013-09-04 7:06 How to add custom markup elements and to define custom backends? Vladimir Lomov
2013-09-04 7:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-09-04 7:33 ` Suvayu Ali [this message]
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