Re: Utility of description lists

[Cletip Cletip <clement020302@gmail.com>]

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Ok I understand, it's really nice (the rendering on your site too).
Thanks for your answer

Le ven. 17 juin 2022 à 16:05, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> a
écrit :

> On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:50 AM Cletip Cletip <clement020302@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ?
>
> I use description lists *heavily*.
>
> 1. For description lists of course.. where the "description" part is a
> bit verbose and plain lists don't look at that elegant
>
> For example, this in Org
>
> =====
> ****** Customizing ~local.mk~ (Optional)
> Here are few variables that you might like to change in the ~local.mk~:
> - ~prefix~ :: Org installation directory
>   #+begin_src makefile
>   prefix = /dir/where/you/want/to/install/org # Default: /usr/share
>   #+end_src
>   The ~.el~ files will go to ~$(prefix)/emacs/site-lisp/org~ by
>   default. If you'd like to change that, change the ~lispdir~
>   variable too.
> - ~infodir~ :: Org Info installation directory. I like to keep the
>   Info file for development version of Org in a separate directory.
>   #+begin_src makefile
>   infodir = $(prefix)/org/info # Default: $(prefix)/info
>   #+end_src
> - ~ORG_MAKE_DOC~ :: Types of Org documentation you'd like to build by
>   default.  Setting below generates only the Org Info manual.
>   #+begin_src makefile
>   ORG_MAKE_DOC = info # Default: html pdf
>   #+end_src
> =====
>
> exports to
> https://scripter.co/building-org-development-version/#customizing-local-dot-mk--optional
>
> 2. Where something would belong in a sub-heading, but not quite
> exactly? I can only describe that using one of my examples:
>
> =====
> ***** Using ~pip install~
> If you do not want to manually download the ~.jar~, there's a Python
> wrapper available to do the same for you:
> [[https://github.com/svenkreiss/html5validator][html5validator]].
> - Install ::
>   #+begin_src shell
>   pip install --user html5validator
>   #+end_src
> - Run ::
>   #+begin_src shell
>   html5validator --root public/
>   #+end_src
>   It seems like this Python wrapper implicitly passes ~--skip-non-html
> =====
>
> exports to https://scripter.co/offline-html5-validator/#using-pip-install
>
> 3. Sometimes I also use it for adding Notes to a section
>
> =====
> - Note :: While the =%.1f= format is handy for those who are used to
>           =printf()= syntax, note that Calc unlimited precision
>           numbers are converted to double floats before applying
>           =%.1f=. Whereas =f1= operates on Calc numbers without
>           conversion.
> =====
>
> exports to the Note in
> https://scripter.co/field-formatters-in-org-table/#using-calc-f1-formatter
>

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