Re: Utility of description lists

Ok I understand, it's really nice (the rendering on your site too). Thanks for your answer Le ven. 17 juin 2022 à 16:05, Kaushal Modi a écrit : > On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:50 AM Cletip Cletip > wrote: > > > Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ? > > I use descriptio

Re: Utility of description lists

Ok clear thanks! Le ven. 17 juin 2022 à 15:43, Fraga, Eric a écrit : > On Friday, 17 Jun 2022 at 09:35, William Denton wrote: > > When I have a list of things I want to briefly descibe! > > And where the leading bullet or number would simple add clutter. > -- > : Eric S Fraga, with org release_9

Re: Utility of description lists

Simple and efficient, thanks for your answer! Le ven. 17 juin 2022 à 15:36, William Denton a écrit : > On 17 June 2022, Cletip Cletip wrote: > > > Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ? > > When I have a list of things I want to briefly descibe! That's all. It's >

Re: Utility of description lists

Hi, Cletip Cletip writes: > - they are made implicitly to make a "key :: value" couple, which can > be convenient Leaving aside typographical considerations, what LaTeX calls, for example, "description" (because Org is totally typographic agnostic), I find this property that you mention very use

Re: Utility of description lists

On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 8:50 AM Cletip Cletip wrote: > Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ? I use description lists *heavily*. 1. For description lists of course.. where the "description" part is a bit verbose and plain lists don't look at that elegant For exampl

Re: Utility of description lists

On Friday, 17 Jun 2022 at 09:35, William Denton wrote: > When I have a list of things I want to briefly descibe! And where the leading bullet or number would simple add clutter. -- : Eric S Fraga, with org release_9.5.4-535-ged6f8d in Emacs 29.0.50

Re: Utility of description lists

It is not quite true that it's just a way of formatting, there is a semantic element to it as well where someone parsing your document programmatically can now know that what you have is a list of terms paired with their descriptions. In fact, when exporting to html you get a description list

Re: Utility of description lists

On 17 June 2022, Cletip Cletip wrote: Final question : why do you use description lists and not another ? When I have a list of things I want to briefly descibe! That's all. It's just a way of formatting a list of things where there's a term (a word, a name, a title) that has some descript

Utility of description lists

Hello to all, The question is the same as the object, but it can be more detailed with this question: what are the differences between description lists and other lists? After many researches, I can't understand the fundamental difference. I can see two advantages to using this type of list: - they