Nathaniel Nicandro <nathanielnican...@gmail.com> writes:

>> A few months have passed since the last activity in this thread.
>> May I know if you are still interested in the idea?
>
> I apologize for being unresponsive all these months. Yes I'm still
> interested in this idea, although I have not had time to work on it
> recently.  Life events caused me to have to stop working on it
> completely a few months back, I'm hoping to be able to put in more time
> now.

No problem.
There is no real rush. Just a gentle, infrequent, ping to keep things
progressing :)

> Where I'm having some trouble is processing the contents of greater
> elements.  My approach for them is basically to define an ansi-context
> (see `ansi-color-context-region`) for each greater element and process
> the inner elements using that context.  This seems to work except for
> plain-list elements which can have other plain-list elements within
> them, e.g.
>
> #+RESULTS:
> - <ANSI1>List item 1
>   - Sub-list <ANSI2>item 1
> - List item 2
> - List item 3
>
> Should the sub-list's sequence affect the rest of list elements in the
> parent list?  If that's the case, then I think I can keep with my
> approach and define an ansi-context for the outermost plain-list which
> is used by all the other plain-list elements contained within
> it. Otherwise I think I would have to do something like copy the
> ansi-context for each inner plain-list and use the copy to process the
> sequences in the inner-list so that the context of the outer-list is
> unaffected. WDYT?

Just go with whatever is simpler implementation-wise. It is a good idea
to get things working first, and only then go ahead with tweaking small
details as necessary.

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