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From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@uva.nl>
Subject: Re: information/feature request: org analog to latex \description
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On Sep 10, 2008, at 8:46 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Sep 10, 2008, at 12:19 AM, Eric Schulte wrote:
>
>> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | first term: and it's definition
>>>> | second: and it's definition
>>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>> How should Org distinguish those colons from other colons?
>>
>> yes, I suppose the double colons you show below would be required
>>
>>>> would be much preferable to what I currently often find myself  
>>>> doing
>>>> which is
>>>>
>>>> ,----
>>>> | - *first term*: and it's definition
>>>> | - *second*: and it's definition
>>>> `----
>>>
>>>
>>> This is what I did too :-) I even wrote a little little elisp  
>>> function
>>> to do this for me. But since a few weeks there is:
>>>
>>>
>>> - Term1 :: description (try to press ALT-RET here)
>>> - Term2 :: description (try to press ALT-RET here)
>
> However, this syntax is only supported by the HTML backend, not by  
> the LaTeX backend yet.... :-(

Bastien has implemented description lists into the LaTeX exporter now,  
the fix is in 6.07b.

- Carsten