Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> writes: > Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> writes: >> >>> I see comments as "entities which do not have any impact on the final >>> product". >>> >>> If you regard the org file as the final product, then I >>> completely agree (I use org mainly for literate programming, and I don't >>> use any comments unless in linger code blocks, but that is not in >>> org). But if I use org for writing e.g. presentations in beamer, I might >>> want >>> to add comments which should not be on the product (slides, article, >>> handout, ...) but which contain info in the org file. >>> >>> So we are talking different levels here. >> >> Comments do not alter the final product: they are ignored during export. >> But there are places where you cannot have comments, at all. If we look >> at the following example, similar to OP's: >> >> Some text >> # comment >> Some other text >> >> comment do not split the paragraph: there were two paragraphs since the >> beginning (but still no spoon). It's only disturbing if you think >> comments can be inserted within paragraphs, which is not the case. > > I think I see what you mean: if the comment would not be there, the text > would look as follow: > > ,---- > | Some text > | > | Some other text > `---- > > for the exporter. So the comment here > > ,---- > | Some text > | # comment > | Some other text > `---- > > is ignored, but not the empty line resulting - is this correct? I think > the confusion is that comments in org are between comment lines and > inline comments in this regard. >
In that case, I guess some confusion might come from LaTeX, for example, where also the newline is ignored by the comment, s.t. in LaTeX ,---- | Some text | % comment | Some other text `---- is interpreted as ,---- | Some text | Some other text `---- [...] IMO, there is no 'feature' in the 'paragraph breaking' comments in org. But I understand that it is quite hard to change that behaviour. Regards, Andreas
