Block conventions

Block conventions

[Jeff Horn]

Orgsters,

I was wondering whether it is common practice to indicate source code
blocks with capital letters, as in

#+BEGIN_SRC text
Example source block
#+END_SRC

while indicating special blocks with lower-case, as in

#+begin_latex
This is \LaTeX.
#+end_latex

They both work (I think). But, I can't decide which one looks better
to my eye. What are your thoughts?

-- 
Jeffrey Horn
http://www.failuretorefrain.com/jeff/

Re: Block conventions

[Carsten Dominik]

On Jan 4, 2011, at 8:05 PM, Jeff Horn wrote:

> Orgsters,
>
> I was wondering whether it is common practice to indicate source code
> blocks with capital letters, as in
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC text
> Example source block
> #+END_SRC
>
> while indicating special blocks with lower-case, as in
>
> #+begin_latex
> This is \LaTeX.
> #+end_latex
>
> They both work (I think). But, I can't decide which one looks better
> to my eye. What are your thoughts?


I think the lower-case versions look much better and I
have often cursed myself for starting out with these
upper-case ones.  The upper-case ones did make sense
without special fontification - but now they look like
FORTRAN 77.

:)

- Carsten

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Re: Block conventions

[Juan Pechiar]

The keyboard shortcuts produce lowercase text (e.g. typing <e[TAB] for
a begin_example).

It's not my personal preference, though.

Regards,
.j.

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 02:05:27PM -0500, Jeff Horn wrote:
> I was wondering whether it is common practice to indicate source code
> blocks with capital letters, as in
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC text
> Example source block
> #+END_SRC
>
> while indicating special blocks with lower-case, as in
>
> #+begin_latex
> This is \LaTeX.
> #+end_latex
>
> They both work (I think). But, I can't decide which one looks better
> to my eye. What are your thoughts?