Nic-
Sent this to the list earlier; should have cc'd you.
Thanks again for your help!
-Ethan
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After some very helpful corrections and suggestions from Nic, I'd like
to propose the following patch, which addresses a problem in the html
and docbook export of description items.
The problem is illustrated by the following example:
#+begin_src org
* Illustration of bug in html export
- This has a space after the colons :: so will work in latex and html
- This doesn't have a space after the colons ::so is an invalid
description item according to the org manual. Won't work in html
or docbook. Will nevertheless work in latex, provided /first/
description item is valid.
- Has a terminating space ::
- So it works in both html and latex export!
- Even though it's difficult to distinguish from the next example.
- Lacks a terminating space ::
- At present, *doesn't* work in html or docbook export, does in
latex. This is the case that the following patch fixes.
#+end_src
diff --git a/lisp/org-docbook.el b/lisp/org-docbook.el
index dbb608d..124e1dc 100644
--- a/lisp/org-docbook.el
+++ b/lisp/org-docbook.el
@@ -1382,7 +1382,7 @@ the alist of previous items."
(string-match (concat "[ \t]*\\(\\S-+[ \t]*\\)"
"\\(?:\\[@\\(?:start:\\)?\\([0-9]+\\|[a-zA-Z]\\)\\]\\)?"
"\\(?:\\(\\[[ X-]\\]\\)[ \t]+\\)?"
- "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::[ \t]+\\)?"
+ "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::\\(?:[ \t]+\\|$\\)\\)?"
"\\(.*\\)")
line)
(let* ((checkbox (match-string 3 line))
diff --git a/lisp/org-html.el b/lisp/org-html.el
index d19d88b..4ae6d99 100644
--- a/lisp/org-html.el
+++ b/lisp/org-html.el
@@ -2501,7 +2501,7 @@ the alist of previous items."
(concat "[ \t]*\\(\\S-+[ \t]*\\)"
"\\(?:\\[@\\(?:start:\\)?\\([0-9]+\\|[A-Za-z]\\)\\]\\)?"
"\\(?:\\(\\[[ X-]\\]\\)[ \t]+\\)?"
- "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::[ \t]+\\)?"
+ "\\(?:\\(.*\\)[ \t]+::\\(?:[ \t]+\\|$\\)\\)?"
"\\(.*\\)") line)
(let* ((checkbox (match-string 3 line))
(desc-tag (or (match-string 4 line) "???"))
--
Ethan Ligon, Associate Professor
Agricultural & Resource Economics
University of California, Berkeley
