Hello, Ethan Ligon <li...@are.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou <at> gmail.com> writes: >> > Ethan Ligon <ligon <at> are.berkeley.edu> writes: >> Your patch allows items like: >> >> - term ::description >> >> which are not valid for a description list. > > Thanks for correcting my misunderstanding of the latex-export > behavior. But I still think this behavior is undesirable. I don't disagree: I was just pointing out the internals of the LaTeX exporter in that case. > The org manual says that a description item takes the form '- term > :: ', and thus seems to require a space after the double colon. I > suppose it's this that you're relying on in claiming that > "- term ::description" is invalid. Indeed. On the other hand, font-lock will still fontify is as a description item, which is paradoxical. > I agree that "- term ::description" is ugly, but the use-case that is > giving me problems is something like > > - term :: > 1. A list > 2. Providing > 3. The description > > The html export code currently allows "- term ::[ \t]+", so the above > breaks unless there's a space or a tab following the "::". My issue > would be addressed if we could just slightly expand the set of > allowable white space following, so that we'd have "::[ \t\n]+". > > Does that seem reasonable? It is. Or something like the slightly different "::\\(:?[ \t]+\\|$\\)". And if the same modification is made to docbook.el (code is very similar), that will make a good patch for the problem at hand. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
