From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: Should comments break paragraphs? Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:53:11 +0200 Message-ID: References: <51E443F6.2050104@arfer.net> <87mwpnfybn.fsf@gmail.com> <51E47BC1.7010808@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57462) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyz8c-0005zY-3R for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:53:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyz8b-00054w-7f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:53:30 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:60877) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyz8b-00054D-0h for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 02:53:29 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Uyz8Z-0004Wz-Jd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:53:27 +0200 Received: from arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net ([88.186.171.7]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:53:27 +0200 Received: from Rainer by arn78-1-88-186-171-7.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:53:27 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Christian Wittern writes: > On 2013-07-16 03:54, Nicolas Goaziou wrote: >> Yes. Comments are elements. Elements cannot be found in paragraphs. > Hmm. In my book, the concept of comments implies that they should be > able to appear on any line in the text, without altering the meaning > of the context it appears in. So to me, it would seem necessary to > treat comments as special, different from other elements. > > Just my 2 yen, I have to agree with you here: a comment should *not* impact on the result, because if it does, it is not a comment anymore, but a command. It should be exported in the exporter as either a comment in the resulting document (e.g %% in LaTeX, a comment or note in odt, ...) or ignored in the exported document, but definitely not have an impact on the *layout* of the document. Cheers, Rainer > > Christian =2D-=20 Rainer M. Krug email: RMKruggmailcom --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.13 (Darwin) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJR5O3XAAoJENvXNx4PUvmC8O0IAIbuZulHy7Fs2ttWjtfQx/fm utJ7vs1qBP8JyHOXDT0LG5FoRk5zwL+ERquYezLfAj02wpBkBD66cJO20HGbBnkV o9wjozsGLidBlbacWfdAPGDjHr+9ffVCk/eNPjgjdkm5XDrbi/J3dmW89zxpubW4 jsKx3h9jCG6nmrjwVusxfiQejG2ZvISlj6E1IuV9EnRnMYC92wpZWVPICPfGUENU +SmySeqT8iu3VHFmkhhebXhkfn7L8ic++9O1aGL6uglURoEd+8H/DfvCga4Ckpps s08NE9vOYXhFp+NQx3s93ux88zUdqetJw+dYt4i/maNG3kg4PUa9mcL+QnusUok= =TXkT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--