I've written a patch (attached) with my proposed wording changes to the documentation, should I be starting another thread or does dropping it here work best? I do not have commit access so I'd need someone with such authority to do the last bit.
-- Tom Alexander
From 20addaa5ab7d4e9420ade1125c2a337345ecdd31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tom Alexander <t...@fizz.buzz> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:19:05 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] org-syntax.org: Fix definition of description list tags. Description lists support objects in their tags and they support the substring " :: ". --- org-syntax.org | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/org-syntax.org b/org-syntax.org index 123fc232..3046e26c 100644 --- a/org-syntax.org +++ b/org-syntax.org @@ -470,9 +470,10 @@ BULLET COUNTER-SET CHECK-BOX TAG CONTENTS + CHECK-BOX (optional) :: A single whitespace character, an =X= character, or a hyphen enclosed by square brackets (i.e. =[ ]=, =[X]=, or =[-]=). + TAG (optional) :: An instance of the pattern =TAG-TEXT ::= where - =TAG-TEXT= represents a string consisting of non-newline characters - that does not contain the substring ="Â ::Â "= (two colons surrounded by - whitespace, without the quotes). + =TAG-TEXT= is one of more objects from the standard set so long as + they do not contain a newline character, until the last occurrence + of the substring ="Â ::Â "= (two colons surrounded by whitespace, + without the quotes). + CONTENTS (optional) :: A collection of zero or more elements, ending at the first instance of one of the following: - The next item. -- 2.42.0
