William Crandall <bc3141...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello Nicolas, > > Many thanks for expanded clarity, and a new direction. > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:51 AM, > Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I understand your problem, but inserting ATTR_HTML >> keywords in a paragraph isn't possible anymore. I cannot >> allow that as it would defeat a fundamental change in the >> new Org syntax. > > This is good. While not familiar with the details, I clearly > see the value of maintaining the logical integrity of the new > architecture. > >> ATTR_HTML could ... accept a list of properties that would >> be applied in order to each link in the paragraph. But it >> wouldn't scale well... > > Agreed; this is not the way to go. > > >> I'm open to any other suggestion. For example, link's >> syntax could be extended to allow attributes. > > I like this idea, and think it is the way to go. > -------------------------------------------------- > > One approach would be to expand the current link syntax > from TWO to THREE pairs of square brackets. > > Current syntax: > http://orgmode.org/org.html#Link-format > > New syntax: > > [[link]] > > [[link][description]] > > [[link][description][ATTRIBUTES]] > > > Description and attributes would be optional. > > ATTRIBUTES would consisting of name:value pairs, perhaps > giving names export-type prefixes, such as HTML_STYLE and > HTML_TITLE, or LATEX_PDFBORDER and LATEX_URLCOLOR. > > HTML ATTRIBUTES would map to HTML 'attributes': > > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/section-index.html#attributes-1 > > LATEX ATTRIBUTES would map to Latex \hypersetup 'options': > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Hyperlinks#.5Chyperref > (Subsection: Customization) > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > This would be a significant change, but it would make LINKS > "first class objects," and allow Org mode users to directly > apply rich families of link attributes/options. > > The Manual should then indicate that ATTR_HTML is a > /paragraph/-level mechanism, and is no longer intended > for use with links: > http://orgmode.org/org.html#Links-in-HTML-export > > There may, of course, be different/better solutions. > > Thanks for continuing to move this forward! > > -BC > >
Is Samuel Wales' extensible syntax proposal germane? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/10204/match=link+syntax All the best, Tom -- Thomas S. Dye http://www.tsdye.com
