Re: export of emphasized link

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Michael,

On May 30, 2010, at 2:53 PM, Michael Brand wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> An org-mode line with an emphasized link like that one taken from  
> current Worg:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Drop an email to [[mailto:bzg%20AT%20altern%20DOT%20org][Bastien]]*  
> mentioning your username on repo.or.cz

I would write this as

    *Drop an email to* [[mailto:bzg%20AT%20altern%20DOT%20org][Bastien]]

i.e. take the link out of the bold section.

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> shows the bold face in the Emacs Org buffer like expected. But it  
> does not convert the emphasis and still shows `*' when exported to  
> some formats:
> - HTML: not converted
> - LaTeX: could not check because of a missing setup on my side,
>                   from the source code I guess that it converts
> - DocBook: not converted
> - ...: don't know about other formats and what they should support
>
> After removing org-bracket-link-regexp from org-html-expand

What do you mean by this sentence?  What exactly did you do?

> and org-docbook-expand the HTML and DocBook exports _are_ converted  
> and look similar to the highlighting in the Emacs Org buffer. But  
> the doc string of both functions tell:
> "If there are links in the string, don't modify these."
> Why should links be modified in org-mode but not in HTML or DocBook?
>
> If there will be any change I would also like this:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --- a/lisp/org.el
> +++ b/lisp/org.el
> @@ -3285,6 +3285,7 @@ example *bold*, _underlined_ and /italic/.   
> This variable
> characters, the face to be used by font-lock for highlighting in Org- 
> mode
> Emacs buffers, and the HTML tags to be used for this.
> For LaTeX export, see the variable `org-export-latex-emphasis-alist'.
> +For DocBook export, see the variable `org-export-docbook-emphasis- 
> alist'.
> Use customize to modify this, or restart Emacs after changing it."
>   :group 'org-appearance
>   :set 'org-set-emph-re
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------

I have applied this patch.

>
> And: wouldn't it be nice for maintenance to have only one function  
> for some sets of functions like
> - org-html-expand, org-docbook-expand and possibly more
> - org-html-do-expand, org-docbook-do-expand and possibly more
> - org-export-html-convert-emphasize, org-export-docbook-convert- 
> emphasize and possibly more
> - org-export-html-convert-sub-super, org-export-docbook-convert-sub- 
> super and possibly more
> - possibly more
> because they have almost all code in common.

Yes, that would be nice.  It would also be nice if all exporters
would basically use the same code - but this is not how things
happened, unfortunately.

- Carsten