Ihor Radchenko wrote: > James Thomas writes: > >>>> They're loaded on import and view/edit/add-able before re-exporting. A >>>> 'Save WIP' feature for writing to disk until then is on the TODO list. >>> >>> Are the comments also using Org markup? Or is it something more ad-hoc? >> >> The comments are separately stored in bookmark.el bookmarks. I'd briefly >> considered also using a fake backend like "@@comment:the annotation >> text@@" inline for it specifically for org, but preferred the former due >> to the easier sorting/browsing etc.; and I also didn't want to maintain >> the state in two places. But if you have better ideas, please tell me. > > Well. My dream is to have native Org markup for comments. With > appropriate UI to view/edit them. > > Maybe something based on footnotes.
Footnotes are, at least technically, for a point and not a region. Any thoughts about how to extend that? Anyway I'd been meaning to generalize my current reconversion code; let me see what I can do about this... >> (If you're talking about markup within the comment text, that's >> obviously orthogonal to this) > > I was talking about that too :) > If we have native markup for comments in Org, may as well allow the rest > of Org markup there. Regards, James
