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From: Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com>
To: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: simplify usage of special blocks (for beamer)
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 11:58:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87woosw378.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAELgYhe6=nM-PUg9mCXic=BJxW-O2Td1vOTtRbxukFAhSM5Bwg@mail.gmail.com> (Carlos Pita's message of "Sat, 1 Dec 2018 16:23:12 -0300")

On Saturday,  1 Dec 2018 at 16:23, Carlos Pita wrote:
> The idea is that stuff that is very specific to a backend X would be
> in :attrs_X, but stuff that is related to what makes the block
> semantically special could be in :args. 

And this is where the challenge lies!  The whole point of special blocks is that org knows nothing of their semantics.  They are a "black box" and it would be difficult to identify export specific elements and general elements on this basis.

> Nevertheless special blocks will probably be backend specific in most
> cases.

Many but not all.  And hence the difficulty.

Sorry for being negative.  I sympathize fully with your aims as I use special blocks all the time and don't particularly like the attr lines either.  But I see no general solution to this.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.1.14-1035-gfeb442

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-02 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-01 16:24 Feature request: simplify usage of special blocks (for beamer) Carlos Pita
2018-12-01 18:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2018-12-01 18:41   ` Carlos Pita
2018-12-01 19:23     ` Carlos Pita
2018-12-02 11:58       ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2018-12-02 14:50         ` Carlos Pita
2018-12-02 15:30           ` Carlos Pita
2018-12-02 20:42       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2018-12-02 21:05         ` Carlos Pita
2018-12-02 11:55     ` Eric S Fraga

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