James Harkins <jamshar...@gmail.com> writes: > Btw, *who* preferred \alert? (Orwell, Politics and the English Language: > "Never use the passive [voice] where you can use the active.")
Obviously, me, as the author of the back-end. Org offers only one slot for "strong emphasis". I had to choose between bold and alert, and so I did. > Although I'm not happy about manual intervention to convert my prior work, > this is a good step toward consistency. It was odd, in the old framework, > to use headlines for bullet lists and org's numbered lists for numbered > lists. "An org list becomes an output list" is an easier rule to > explain. As explained in this thread, the H:num options item defines a limit between regular headlines and "low-level" headlines. Low level headlines are usually turned into lists during export. But, in the Beamer exporter, it is a better idea to turn them into blocks. Better as in "closer, by its properties, to an headline". > Still, I wonder if there is a way to make the new backend less unfriendly > toward lists. It's an interesting philosophical question: In what cases is > it better for the tool to adapt to the users' wishes, versus cases where > the tool should encourage (Are blocks in the result actually better than > lists? Who says so, and why should I take his or her word for it?) Nobody is saying that blocks are better than lists in the output. It's a matter of taste, isn't it? There are also ways to adapt the tool to your wishes (through hooks, filters, script, macros). > "Reasonably" for me would mean tweaking some configuration options and > perhaps changing a few minor details of the markup. If you have to change > the org document's structure (e.g., converting headlines to lists), it > isn't backward compatible. Then, by this definition, it isn't, indeed. > For comparison: Lilypond updates frequently break some details of backward > compatibility. So, they ship a "convert-ly" script to handle many of those > changes automatically. Even though the required change in our case are rather minimal, they mostly depend on the user configuration. Hence, I will not attempt to provide such a script. But I will provide instructions on how to make the transition, if they are needed. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
