On 27/09/2022 03:13, Tim Cross wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
On 26/09/2022 18:39, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
Should we add page break (^L) to our syntax? It sounds like a reasonable
addition for a text-based markup.
I do not have strong opinion. It is a control character while I prefer explicit
markup and
printable characters or commands in such case. On the other hand the character
is widely
used in .el files.
Users may expect \newline when ^L is exported to LaTeX.
I think I'm with you as well. I don't have a strong opinion and while
personally, I don't like control characters used as part of the syntax,
^L is often used in elisp files, so ......
Matt, could you, please, provide some details concerning your use case
for ^L in Org files? Even if nothing will change this time, it may
affect later decisions.
On 27/09/2022 13:21, Robert Klein wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:10:49 +1000
> Matt Beshara wrote:
>> Fair enough. If the consensus from others is that ^L should be
>> recognised as a paragraph separator and the code is eventually
>> written to make that work, that would be nice, but as it stands I
>> can just start adding newlines after ^L.
>
> Actually ^L is a *page* separator (to be exact “FORM FEED”).
I have realized that page separator for plain text is not necessary
paragraph separator. The same paragraph may continue on the next page.
It makes things more tricky. ^L should be kept on its own line while
text around should be wrapped.
However from a discussion happened a year ago I concluded that it may be
not so trivial to tune `org-fill-element' for special cases.
Timothy. Re: [PATCH] Don't fill displayed equations. Sun, 03 Oct 2021
16:50:54 +0800. https://list.orgmode.org/875yueij6r....@gmail.com
