Fraga, Eric writes:
> On Monday, 10 Feb 2020 at 23:20, Anthony Cowley wrote: >> I am having trouble understanding how short captions are supposed to >> work. Consider this org document: > > [...] > >> The first matches my expectations. The second is an example of taking >> the last bit of markup as the short caption. The third seems to lose >> the short caption altogether. > > I can confirm (with a slightly out of date org) this behaviour which > does seem to be inconsistent and/or wrong. However, I wasn't able to > find any discussion of short captions in the org manual so I'm not sure > if there are caveats on their use. They are described in section 12.8 Captions <https://orgmode.org/manual/Captions.html#Captions> I think this patch fixes the issue: diff -ruN A/org-element.el B/org-element.el --- A/org-element.el 2019-12-03 10:28:06.000000000 -0500 +++ B/org-element.el 2020-02-11 14:47:45.564452900 -0500 @@ -4018,14 +4018,15 @@ (parsed? (member kwd org-element-parsed-keywords)) ;; Find main value for any keyword. (value - (let ((beg (match-end 0)) - (end (save-excursion - (end-of-line) - (skip-chars-backward " \t") - (point)))) - (if parsed? - (org-element--parse-objects beg end nil restrict) - (org-trim (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end))))) + (save-match-data + (let ((beg (match-end 0)) + (end (save-excursion + (end-of-line) + (skip-chars-backward " \t") + (point)))) + (if parsed? + (org-element--parse-objects beg end nil restrict) + (org-trim (buffer-substring-no-properties beg end)))))) ;; If KWD is a dual keyword, find its secondary value. ;; Maybe parse it. (dual? (member kwd org-element-dual-keywords)) Anthony