circufix notation for inline <pre> and <strike> styling

circufix notation for inline <pre> and <strike> styling

[Austin Frank]

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Hello!

We already have the ability to add bold, italic, and underline
formatting to our documents using circumfix notation (*bold*, /italic/,
_underlined_).  We can also style entire lines using <pre> notation by
having a colon  as the first non-whitespace character on a line, or by
putting the line under a QUOTE headline.  I would like to see an
additional feature added to org which would allow some circumfix
notation to be exported with <pre></pre> tags.  This would be useful for
including single programming terms in a sentence and setting them apart
visually.  I'm envisioning something like

    many programming languages have a ;for; loop.

which would be exported as

    <p>many programming languages have a <pre>for</pre> loop.</p>

another possible syntax would be

    many programming languages have a #for# loop.

The specific markup used isn't really important to me, but I would like
the ability to specify this kind of formatting for single words instead
of whole lines.

While I'm at it, is strike-through possible?

    -event- was canceled

could become

    <p><strike>event</strike> was canceled</p>

Again, any syntax which is easy to parse is fine with me.

As mentioned in my previous mail, it would also be nice if these two
pieces of markup could stack with each other and the existing markup syntax.

Thanks,
/au
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Re: circufix notation for inline <pre> and <strike> styling

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 16:38, Austin Frank wrote:

>
>     many programming languages have a ;for; loop.
>
> which would be exported as
>
>     <p>many programming languages have a <pre>for</pre> loop.</p>
>
> another possible syntax would be
>
>     many programming languages have a #for# loop.

I guess these would be reasonable.

>
> The specific markup used isn't really important to me, but I would like
> the ability to specify this kind of formatting for single words instead
> of whole lines.
>
> While I'm at it, is strike-through possible?
>
>     -event- was canceled

I think this one is a bit too likely to occur in a non-intended way, a 
different syntax would be needed, and I am willing to implement it 
(even though strike-through is another one of those markups I would 
never use because I think they could cause an eye injury :-)

- Carsten

Re: circufix notation for inline <pre> and <strike> styling

[Bastien]

Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> writes:

>> While I'm at it, is strike-through possible?
>>
>>     -event- was canceled
>
> I think this one is a bit too likely to occur in a non-intended way, a
> different syntax would be needed, and I am willing to implement it
> (even though strike-through is another one of those markups I would
> never use because I think they could cause an eye injury :-)

What about "+event+"? or ~event~? I think this is less likely to occur
then -event-.  BTW, "++event++" is already in use in some wiki syntax
for strike-through (see wikka wiki).

Strike-through is quite useful when editing a blog entry.  I can see
many occurrences of people using it in some +cynic+ ironical way...

Regards,

-- 
Bastien