[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-06 Thread Sébastien Vauban
Hi Matt, Matt Lundin wrote: > Sébastien Vauban writes: >> >> When discussing exporters and features, two things that come up to my mind >> as missing as a "general Org feature": >> >> - bibliography :: works for LaTeX[1], not for HTML export. > > Have you tried the contributed module org-exp-bibte

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-06 Thread Matt Lundin
Sébastien Vauban writes: > > When discussing exporters and features, two things that come up to my > mind as missing as a "general Org feature": > > - bibliography :: works for LaTeX[1], not for HTML export. Have you tried the contributed module org-exp-bibtex.el? It is not a self-contained org-m

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-05 Thread Aankhen
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 00:57, Eric S Fraga wrote: > Aankhen writes: > > [...] > >> Thank you for the clarifications.  I’m going to talk a bit more about >> HTML as that’s where I have the most experience.  I am in agreement >> with you when you say that builtin support for acronyms would be >> us

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-05 Thread Eric S Fraga
Aankhen writes: [...] > Thank you for the clarifications. I’m going to talk a bit more about > HTML as that’s where I have the most experience. I am in agreement > with you when you say that builtin support for acronyms would be > useful (although I feel it would be good to generalize it to >

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-05 Thread Aankhen
Hi Sébastien, 2011/4/5 Sébastien Vauban : > Aankhen wrote: >> [snip] >> Acronyms are natively supported in HTML. That is all. > > Thanks for reporting this. Wasn't aware of it. Though, that does not alter the > need (at least, what I consider so) for acronyms handling in/from Org. > > Let's clarif

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-05 Thread Sébastien Vauban
Hi Aankhen, Aankhen wrote: > 2011/4/4 Sébastien Vauban : >> [snip] >> >> When discussing exporters and features, two things that come up to my mind >> as missing as a "general Org feature": >> >> - bibliography :: works for LaTeX[1], not for HTML export. >> - acronyms :: idem. >> >> Maybe those sh

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-04 Thread Aankhen
Hullo, 2011/4/4 Sébastien Vauban : > [snip] > > When discussing exporters and features, two things that come up to my mind as > missing as a "general Org feature": > > - bibliography :: works for LaTeX[1], not for HTML export. > - acronyms :: idem. > > Maybe those should be made available for gene

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-04 Thread Nick Dokos
Matt Lundin wrote: > Hi Jambunathan, > > Jambunathan K writes: > > > Matt Lundin writes: > > > >> I agree that the org-exporter currently does its job very well. The > >> astounding utility of org-mode is ample proof of the value of releasing > >> early; even if the exporter is not as elegant

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-04 Thread Nick Dokos
Sébastien Vauban wrote: > Hi Nick and al., > > Nick Dokos wrote: > >> This will at least help with the first difficulty -- and motivate all > >> people working on the exporters to address the second one. The third one > >> can be turned into a *chance*: that of having several people working in t

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Lundin
Hi Jambunathan, Jambunathan K writes: > Matt Lundin writes: > >> I agree that the org-exporter currently does its job very well. The >> astounding utility of org-mode is ample proof of the value of releasing >> early; even if the exporter is not as elegant as a modern compiler, it >> works. :)

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-04 Thread Sébastien Vauban
Hi Nick and al., Nick Dokos wrote: >> This will at least help with the first difficulty -- and motivate all >> people working on the exporters to address the second one. The third one >> can be turned into a *chance*: that of having several people working in the >> same direction. > > Excellent pl

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-04 Thread Jambunathan K
Matt Lundin writes: > Eric S Fraga writes: > >> Jambunathan K writes: >> >> [...] >> >>> I think one of the reasons Org is so popular it is that it is a >>> common-man's swiss army knife and not a elitist samurai sword. >> >> And I think this is a very important analogy. Org does a good job fo

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-04 Thread Matt Lundin
Eric S Fraga writes: > Jambunathan K writes: > > [...] > >> I think one of the reasons Org is so popular it is that it is a >> common-man's swiss army knife and not a elitist samurai sword. > > And I think this is a very important analogy. Org does a good job for > many (very different) tasks.

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-01 Thread Achim Gratz
Nicolas writes: > I have been thinking about exporters for a while now, and I'd like to > share my point of view. Be warned, I will be a bit verbose. [...] +1 A remark about backwards compatibility: I personally don't have a huge investment in documents that I export, but I guess that backwards

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-01 Thread Eric S Fraga
Jambunathan K writes: [...] > I think one of the reasons Org is so popular it is that it is a > common-man's swiss army knife and not a elitist samurai sword. And I think this is a very important analogy. Org does a good job for many (very different) tasks. The price is that it does not neces

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-04-01 Thread Jambunathan K
> I'll show two examples to illustrate my point: lists and tables. Taken > from a docstring, > > 1. first item >+ sub-item one >+ [X] sub-item two >more text in first item > 2. [@3] last item > > will be parsed as: > > (ordered (nil \"first item\" > (unordered (nil "sub-

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-31 Thread Nick Dokos
Jambunathan K wrote: > Do look at my new html exporter. I have been very conservative in making > the changes. > Well, Nicolas's proposal is more radical, but there is no inherent backward compatibility disadvantage to it that I can see. > Some observations from my side ... > > > It isn't doc

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-31 Thread Jambunathan K
Backward compatibility is a real issue. The real challenge is how to move forward while also not breaking anything that the users have come to rely on. > Thus, Org documentation should provide an exhaustive list of > environments and objects it offers with their associated format during > expor

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-31 Thread Jambunathan K
One more thing to the list. Use htmlfontify instead of htmlize. Former is part of standard Emacs while the latter is not. Jambunathan K.

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-31 Thread Nicolas
Hello, Bastien writes: > 2. exporters use various methods to export the file (e.g. the HTML >exporter goes line by line, the LaTeX exporter parses the file and >render each section); > >*Example*: users often ask why the LaTeX exporter cannot export a >headline of level 3 right a

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-27 Thread Bastien
Hi Jambunathan, Jambunathan K writes: > I pulled the master branch with an intention to "re-baseline" my branch > and I saw some 37 lines were changed since I "branched" out my odt > branch. My heart just sinked. > > A request from my side. Would it be possible to delay adding of new > capabilit

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-27 Thread Jambunathan K
This is slightly out of thread. I pulled the master branch with an intention to "re-baseline" my branch and I saw some 37 lines were changed since I "branched" out my odt branch. My heart just sinked. A request from my side. Would it be possible to delay adding of new capabilities and features t

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:25:02 -0400 Nick Dokos wrote: > > PS: Also note that I couldn't be as available as I wanted the 10 > > last days due to personal problems, but things look better now. > > > > I think I'm speaking for all of us: Nothing here is so urgent that it > cannot wait for a few d

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Nick Dokos
Bastien wrote: > Here is a list of difficulties: > > 1. the syntax of the backends vary, and this means that all Org options >are not meaningful in all target formats; > >*Example*: #+XSLT is only meaninful for the Docbook export. The >variable `org-export-html-postamble' is only m

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Achim Gratz
Bastien writes: > I fully agree with Nick and Thomas (and others who also agreed): Org's > export facilities need some real love and new export features need to be > introduced as complete and as consistent accross exporters as possible. > > I hope we'll make progress on this for 7.6. That would

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-24 Thread Bastien
Dear all, I applied the patches too hastily, disregarding some inconsistency they could introduce between exporters -- sorry for that. I fully agree with Nick and Thomas (and others who also agreed): Org's export facilities need some real love and new export features need to be introduced as comp

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Jambunathan K
> OTOH, it is important to document such limitations, so that innocent > users don't end up spending hours trying to do something that cannot > be done. Point taken. > > Nick > > --

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Nick Dokos
Jambunathan K wrote: > > >> For example, I don't know if the docbook backend explicitly > >> writes section numbers in, or if the sectioning is left to the > >> stylesheet. If the latter, can I mark sections as ones that > >> should be numbered and ones that shouldn't? > >> > > > > And I'm sur

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Jambunathan K
>> For example, I don't know if the docbook backend explicitly >> writes section numbers in, or if the sectioning is left to the >> stylesheet. If the latter, can I mark sections as ones that >> should be numbered and ones that shouldn't? >> > > And I'm sure Jambunathan will take care of the odt

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Jambunathan K
Nick Dokos writes: > Suvayu Ali wrote: > >> This works too, but Lawrence's patch makes it much easier and >> probably works for other export formats too. Thanks a lot. :) >> > > No doubt Lawrence's patch can be extended to work for other exports, but > it's not there yet: each exporter would ne

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Nick Dokos
Lawrence Mitchell wrote: > > patches makes the behavior of different exporters potentially > > inconsistent with each other. > > You can drop the potentially here! > Well, some people might not use the feature... > > IMO, it would be better to accumulate the patches and once all of the > > ex

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Thomas S. Dye
On Mar 23, 2011, at 5:02 AM, Nick Dokos wrote: Bastien wrote: Hi Nick, Nick Dokos writes: Suvayu Ali wrote: This works too, but Lawrence's patch makes it much easier and probably works for other export formats too. Thanks a lot. :) No doubt Lawrence's patch can be extended to work f

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Lawrence Mitchell
Nick Dokos wrote: > Bastien wrote: >> Hi Nick, >> Nick Dokos writes: >>> Suvayu Ali wrote: This works too, but Lawrence's patch makes it much easier and probably works for other export formats too. Thanks a lot. :) >>> No doubt Lawrence's patch can be extended to work for other ex

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Nick Dokos
Bastien wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Nick Dokos writes: > > > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > >> This works too, but Lawrence's patch makes it much easier and > >> probably works for other export formats too. Thanks a lot. :) > > > > No doubt Lawrence's patch can be extended to work for other exports, but >

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-23 Thread Bastien
Hi Nick, Nick Dokos writes: > Suvayu Ali wrote: > >> This works too, but Lawrence's patch makes it much easier and >> probably works for other export formats too. Thanks a lot. :) > > No doubt Lawrence's patch can be extended to work for other exports, but > it's not there yet: each exporter wo

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-22 Thread Nick Dokos
Suvayu Ali wrote: > This works too, but Lawrence's patch makes it much easier and > probably works for other export formats too. Thanks a lot. :) > No doubt Lawrence's patch can be extended to work for other exports, but it's not there yet: each exporter would need a change similar to the one t

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:35:10 -0400 Nick Dokos wrote: > Suvayu Ali wrote: > > > Hi S=C3=A9bastien, > > > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:20:29 +0100 > > S=C3=A9bastien Vauban wrote: > > > > > > > > I was wondering whether there is some way to export the > > > > attached org file to latex such that he

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-22 Thread Nick Dokos
Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi S=C3=A9bastien, > > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:20:29 +0100 > S=C3=A9bastien Vauban wrote: > > > > > > I was wondering whether there is some way to export the attached org > > > file to latex such that headlines beyond level 2 (3 and onwards) can > > > be exported as unnumbere

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-22 Thread Sébastien Vauban
Hi Suvayu, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:20:29 +0100 > Sébastien Vauban wrote: >> > >> > I was wondering whether there is some way to export the attached org file >> > to latex such that headlines beyond level 2 (3 and onwards) can be >> > exported as unnumbered subsections or subsub

Re: [O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-22 Thread Suvayu Ali
Hi Sébastien, On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:20:29 +0100 Sébastien Vauban wrote: > > > > I was wondering whether there is some way to export the attached org > > file to latex such that headlines beyond level 2 (3 and onwards) can > > be exported as unnumbered subsections or subsubsections like this, > >

[O] Re: unnumbered subsections in latex export

2011-03-22 Thread Sébastien Vauban
Hi Suvayu, Suvayu Ali wrote: > Hi Orgers, > > I was wondering whether there is some way to export the attached org > file to latex such that headlines beyond level 2 (3 and onwards) can > be exported as unnumbered subsections or subsubsections like this, > \subsection*{}, instead of enclosing them