From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] [babel] read description lists as lists of lists
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 13:52:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ha02a4qg.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ha03qv19.fsf@gmail.com> (Aaron Ecay's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2014 15:17:54 -0400")
Hello,
Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> writes:
> The attached patch makes babel read description lists as lists of the
> following format: (("term" "description") ...). The present default is
> to simply read in the text of each list item, yielding:
> ("term :: description" ...).
Thank you.
> Of course, it’s possible to interconvert between the two formats, but I
> think the greater structure of this proposal makes things easier for
> babel authors. (Another way of thinking of the proposal is that it
> treats description lists like two-column tables.)
>
> What do people think?
The problem I see here is that you're introducing yet another internal
representation for lists (along with element's and
org-list-parse-list's). Worse, it can only be discovered when reading
the docstring of a Babel internal function and will only benefit to
Babel.
If this new internal representation is better than current one, by all
means, improve `org-list-parse-list', and document it in
(info "(org) Radio lists")
This is more work, but, IMO, it is also the only sane way to proceed.
> +THE result is a list of strings \(the list items), unless the
You only need to escape parenthesis at the beginning of a line.
> + (mapcar (lambda (el)
> + (let ((s (split-string el " :: ")))
> + (list (nth 0 s) (mapconcat #'identity (cdr s) " :: "))))
This is really awkward. You can use a regexp to extract the tag.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-20 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 19:17 [RFC] [PATCH] [babel] read description lists as lists of lists Aaron Ecay
2014-09-20 0:30 ` Charles Berry
2014-09-20 11:52 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2014-09-23 4:02 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-24 19:56 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-24 22:49 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-26 9:03 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2014-09-28 5:55 ` Aaron Ecay
2014-09-28 10:49 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-28 22:09 ` Nicolas Goaziou
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