On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Christian Moe <m...@christianmoe.com>wrote:
> On 10/21/11 12:59 PM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > So, using your above mentioned example, after the first PROPERTY line, >> euro=1.3795 and SALESTAX not set, while after the second one >> salestax=.15, and euro is unset? That would be quite bad. >> > > That's what I'd expected, but actually, euro is set and salestax is not. > Apparently subsequent PROPERTY lines are ignored if they try to set an > already existing property. > That's bad - really bad. Because then I have to substantially change my files. > > To clarify: before, we could use #+BABEL and #PROPERTY to do similar >> things. Now the whole #+BABEL has been removed, and only the >> functionality from #+PROPERTY is left - correct? >> > > That's my understanding. And #+PROPERTY offers equivalent functionality in > almost every way, but not, as far as I can understand, in this corner case. > Then I would suggest to leave #+BABEL until these cases are also implemented in #+PROPERTY - but I suppose, they are there for a purpose. Cheers, Rainer > > Christian > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax (F): +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
