Summary of syntax?

Summary of syntax?

[Alan Schmitt]

Hello,

I was just reading a document in org mode that had some code written 
like this:

: make
: make install

I wanted to know more about this syntax (colon at the start of the 
line), so I went to the manual and searched for it. Unfortunately I 
could not find it, nor could I find a summary of the syntax for org 
files.

Is there a syntax reference card somewhere?

Thanks a lot,

Alan

Re: Summary of syntax?

[Jambunathan K]

"Alan Schmitt" <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I was just reading a document in org mode that had some code written
> like this:
>
> : make
> : make install
>
> I wanted to know more about this syntax (colon at the start of the
> line), 

M-x apropos-variable RET fixed-width

or

M-x org-info
g Literal Examples

Search for Fixed width

or

(info "(org) Literal examples")
-- 

Re: Summary of syntax?

[Tassilo Horn]

"Alan Schmitt" <alan.schmitt@polytechnique.org> writes:

Hi Alan,

> I was just reading a document in org mode that had some code written
> like this:
>
> : make
> : make install
>
> I wanted to know more about this syntax (colon at the start of the
> line), so I went to the manual and searched for it.

Here it is.

,----[ (info "(org)Literal examples") ]
| For simplicity when using small examples, you can also start
| the example lines with a colon followed by a space.  There may also be
| additional whitespace before the colon:
| 
|      Here is an example
|         : Some example from a text file.
`----

> Unfortunately I could not find it, nor could I find a summary of the
> syntax for org files.
>
> Is there a syntax reference card somewhere?

Not that I know of...

Bye,
Tassilo

Re: Summary of syntax?

[Alan Schmitt]

On 2 Feb 2012, at 10:10, Tassilo Horn wrote:

>> I wanted to know more about this syntax (colon at the start of the
>> line), so I went to the manual and searched for it.
>
> Here it is.
>
> ,----[ (info "(org)Literal examples") ]
> | For simplicity when using small examples, you can also start
> | the example lines with a colon followed by a space.  There may also 
> be
> | additional whitespace before the colon:
> |
> |      Here is an example
> |         : Some example from a text file.
> `----

Thanks a lot (and thanks Jambunathan K as well).

>> Unfortunately I could not find it, nor could I find a summary of the
>> syntax for org files.
>>
>> Is there a syntax reference card somewhere?
>
> Not that I know of...

This would be most useful: I don't think I could have found this by 
myself, except knowing the name of what I was searching for. Maybe I 
should do it (it would be a nice way to really learn the syntax).

Alan

Re: Summary of syntax?

[Jacek Generowicz]

At Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:10:29 +0100,
Tassilo Horn wrote:
> 
> Here it is.
> 
> ,----[ (info "(org)Literal examples") ]
> | For simplicity when using small examples, you can also start
> | the example lines with a colon followed by a space.  There may also be
> | additional whitespace before the colon:
> | 
> |      Here is an example
> |         : Some example from a text file.
> `----
> 

Orthogonal question: what citing/quoting/formatting facility are you
using to create the above?

Re: Summary of syntax?

[Nick Dokos]

Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz@cern.ch> wrote:

> At Thu, 2 Feb 2012 10:10:29 +0100,
> Tassilo Horn wrote:
> > 
> > Here it is.
> > 
> > ,----[ (info "(org)Literal examples") ]
> > | For simplicity when using small examples, you can also start
> > | the example lines with a colon followed by a space.  There may also be
> > | additional whitespace before the colon:
> > | 
> > |      Here is an example
> > |         : Some example from a text file.
> > `----
> > 
> 
> Orthogonal question: what citing/quoting/formatting facility are you
> using to create the above?
> 

I'm pretty sure it's boxquote.el. The top of the file says:

,----
| ;; The latest version of boxquote.el can be found at:
| ;;
| ;;   <URL:http://www.davep.org/emacs/#boxquote.el>
`----

Nick

Re: Summary of syntax?

[Jacek Generowicz]

Nick Dokos wrote:
> I'm pretty sure it's boxquote.el.

Which led me to discover rebox2 (based on François' rebox.el).

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/rebox2

It's one of these moments where I get to feel all warm and fuzzy
inside, because I live in the Emacs world.