Re: Re: [IDEA] HTML-export literal examples to textarea

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

On Jan 19, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Jan 19, 2009, at 12:14 PM, Ulf Stegemann wrote:
>
>> Hi Carsten,
>>
>> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>>
>>> So it remains a kind-of specialistic thing.
>>
>> no, I wouldn't say so. textarea seems to have become quite popular in
>> HTML online documentation. Apart from all the copy and paste stuff,
>> textarea can do a virtual wrap or give you a horizontal scroll bar.  
>> This
>> is nice if you have literal text with long lines that can or should  
>> not
>> be wrapped but should also not exceed you layout's horizontal limits.
>> I'd guess this is the main reason, why textarea is widely used to  
>> give
>> literal examples.
>
> OK, so maybe this is more main-stream than I thought.  And, as  
> Sebastian
> just reminded us, we do have switch processing in examples already
> in place.
>
> So I will put it in, just using a "-t" option at the example (or src)
> block, and -h and -w options for width and height (cannot use -r for  
> rows,
> because -r is already taken.....)

OK, it is in:

#+begin_example -t -w 80 -h 20
...
#+end_example

HTH, thanks for the idea.

- Carsten

>
>
> Eric, no action for org-blocks necessary.
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>>
>>
>> Nevertheless, the textarea block is certainly just a nice-to-have and
>> not an absolutely necessary killer-feature.
>>
>>
>> Ulf
>>
>>
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