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From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
Subject: Re: latex checkboxes
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:14:51 -0400
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To: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>, Skip Collins <skip.collins@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com> wrote:

> Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> 
> >> Btw, is there any consensus on better default values for :cbon, :cboff
> >> and :cbtrans? Configurability isn't an excuse for ugly standards.
> >> 
> >
> > I don't think so - not yet in any case. I didn't even know about the
> > box stuff until Skip brought it up. I would have thought that the
> > default ones should be the simplest thing possible: [ ], [X] and [-]
> > in a monospaced font, something that does not need any help from
> > additional LaTeX packages, the kind of thing that org-list-to-latex
> > does.
> 
> Then, what about setting :cbtrans to "\\texttt{[-]}" and
> `org-export-latex-list-parameters' to nil, instead of "$\\boxminus$" and
> '(:cbon "$\\boxtimes$" :cboff "$\\Box$"), respectively?
> 

I'm fine with that - Skip? Tom? Others? If this does end up being the case,
then Skip's \parbox method can be integrated into Tom's LaTeX tutorial
or as a separate hack on Worg.

Nick