> From: Eric S Fraga <e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk>
> [...] >> FWIW, in Emacs I typed: >> >> C-h v org<TAB> >> >> and got no fewer than 931 completions. A lot of knobs to turn! > > yes, indeed! the info manual is your friend here. it is very difficult > to figure out what you need to set from just the list of org- variables. Heh. Yes, thanks, Eric. I'm not crazy enough to try to bootstrap my way through 900+ variables, but that sets the scale of the challenge for me. >>>> >>>> (2) When I use the construct: >>>> >>>> [[URL] [description]] >> >>> ^ >>> ^ >>>No space here ^ >> >>>> the line does NOT collapse to: >>>> >>>> "description" >>>> >>>> when I add the closing bracket, and if I export to HTML or PDF, I >>>> get the whole ugly line, brackets and all. >> >> Yep, omitting the space fixed the problem. I guess I've got a knee-jerk >> instinct to try to "pretty print", and I didn't notice the the "][" brackets >> were contiguous in the example. > > The best approach here is to use some of the specific functions (often > with already defined key bindings) that are set up for just this type of > case: =org-insert-link= in this case. These will insert things with the > right formatting automatically! Very good suggestion! I just used C-c C-l to add a link, and, of course, it worked perfectly (as did the manual edit suggested by Nick D.). I note that by my count there are no fewer than 1612 "org*" functions ;-) Thanks again. -- Mike
